Maar goed, vanmorgen eens opgezocht op Google en hier is de uitleg:
In principe zijn het gewoon verschillende namen voor hetzelfde soort storm!
Hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones are different names for the same type of storm. A tropical cyclone is called a hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, or the Northeast Pacific Ocean on the eastern side of the dateline. A typhoon occurs in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline. In other parts of the world, these storms are called severe tropical cyclones.
A hurricane, then, is a cyclonic storm with maximum sustained winds over 74 mph (64 knots; 119 kph). Hurricanes are then further classed according to strength by the Saffir-Simpson Scale. There are five strength categories, with a Category 5 storm rating maximum sustained winds over 156 mph (136 knots; 251 kph).
Strangely, there is no quantitative difference in strength, speed, or damage caused by a cyclone versus a typhoon. The only difference between these two names for cyclical tropical storms are the global area in which they form. People around the Indian Ocean and Southwestern Pacific Ocean (that part of the Pacific Ocean near Australia) refer to these storms as cyclones and those storms that generate in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean (that part of the Pacific Ocean near Asia) are called typhoons. Incidentally, people around the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific Ocean (that part of the Pacific Ocean near the Americas) call such powerful, cylindrical storms hurricanes.
They only spin in different directions because of what hemisphere they are on. They both turn in the direction of the earth - counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
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