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Cyclones are large scale, rotating low-pressure storm systems
The word "Cyclone" just means 'turning wind with one eye'. It may relate to the word "Cyclops", that one eyed creature in an Ancient Greek story.
Other sources quote the word cyclone as deriving from the Greek word kyklon which means "moving in a circle" or "whirling around". This is because a cyclone contain high winds which rotate, or "whirl around" a center, which, in tropical cyclones, forms an eye.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoHurricane comes from the Taino Indian work "hurakan" which means "big wind." Also, the word cyclone has a very broad definition to American meteorologists, referring to virtually any synoptic scale low pressure system. A hurricane is a much more specific type of weather system.
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What are cyclones called in Europe?
Cyclones in Europe are known as cyclones. They are not called hurricanes - this is a term generally reserved for cyclones in the Americas.
What are cyclones associated with?
Pacific Ocean intense tropical storms are called cyclones. In the Atlantic they are called hurricanes.
What are powerful rotating storms in the pacific ocean called?
A Hurricane or a Typhoon or a Cyclone.
Where would a hurricane be called a cyclone?
Hurricanes are called cyclones in the southern hemisphere. However, all hurricanes technically qualify as tropical cyclones.
What is a cyclone called in Asia?
In the Far East, a hurricane is called a typhoon. Hurricanes and typhoons are types of tropical cyclones. In other regions of the world, such as the Caribbean area or parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, these storms are called hurricanes.
What are cyclones called in Europe?
Cyclones in Europe are known as cyclones. They are not called hurricanes - this is a term generally reserved for cyclones in the Americas.
What are cyclones associated with?
Pacific Ocean intense tropical storms are called cyclones. In the Atlantic they are called hurricanes.
What are the differences of cyclones?
'Cyclone' is the generic term for cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons. These tropical storms are called 'cyclones' in the Southern Hemisphere, and they rotate in a clockwise direction. In the northern hemisphere, where cyclones occur in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean, they are called hurricanes and those in the South China Sea and regions of Asia are called typhoons. Northern hemisphere cyclones rotate anti-clockwise, so are sometimes called "anti-cyclones".
Tropical cyclones visiting southern Japan are called?
Tropical cyclones visiting southern Japan are called typhoons
Are tornadoes also called cyclones?
Sometimes they are called cyclones, though it is incorrect to do so, as a cyclone is a large-scale weather system
What are powerful rotating storms in the pacific ocean called?
A Hurricane or a Typhoon or a Cyclone.
Where would a hurricane be called a cyclone?
Hurricanes are called cyclones in the southern hemisphere. However, all hurricanes technically qualify as tropical cyclones.
What is a cyclone called in Asia?
In the Far East, a hurricane is called a typhoon. Hurricanes and typhoons are types of tropical cyclones. In other regions of the world, such as the Caribbean area or parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, these storms are called hurricanes.
What are hurricanes called in bangledesh?
Hurricanes in Bangladesh are called cyclones.
Is ther a nfl team called the cyclones?
no
Center of low pressure are called?
Cyclones
What are the cyclones called in south China?
typoon
