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Ahurricane and a typhoon are essentially the same type of storm, that is tropical cyclones with winds of at least 74 mph.

Both are kinds of cyclones. A cyclone is a low pressure system that rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere..

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