Hurricane

[71 Trans Am]

That is some Hurricane due to hit North Carolina Tomorrow.

https://www.windy.com/?28.575,-74.619,5

If the link doesn't work go to www.windyty.com and drag the map about.

[trevnhil]

This is the weather forecasting site I am using now and it seems to be quite accurate..
Re the Hurricane it looks like it will make landfall today at or around Wilmington, in North Carolina..

[panoscouse]

CGI weather report



sorry about the naughty words.

[josef k]

There is a pretty nasty one in the Philippines as well. Being in the pacific they are called typhoons, for reasons that escape me.

[Lofos-5]

Hurricanes in Northern Hemisphere - Typhoons in Southern Hemisphere (I believe)

That made me think and check Google (Philippines are N of equator).

Apparently this is what it is:

The only difference between a hurricane, a cyclone, and a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs. Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, the term “hurricane” is used.

TYPHOON?: They're all the same, officially tropical cyclones. But they just use distinctive terms for a storm in different parts of the world. Hurricane is used in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, central and northeast Pacific. They are typhoons in the northwest Pacific.


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[panoscouse]

The word hurricane is derived from the Caribbean God of Evil 'Huracan'.

The word typhoon is a European translation of ancient Chinese (something like) Tung Feng meaning east wind.
At least that's how I remember it.

[Kili01]

Typhoon. Is anglisized versin on ‘Tai fong’ means strong wind in Chinese language. Or so I was told when I lived out there...
I feel sorry for anyone who is caught up in a bad one... They are always very scary, batten down the hatches, but would be terrifing, if one is unfortunate to live in a flimsily build house especially if on a steep hillside (risk of landslides), or in an area with poor or no proper drains, or too close to the sea...

I feel even more sorry for the people in the Philippeans facing a mega typoon, living in the barrios where all/some of the above conditions may exist.

Dee

[Jimgward]

I believed that typhoons spun in opposite direction to a hurricane as they are Southern Hemisphere.

Like water goes opposite way down plughole..

Apparently hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are the same... just different names and of course the different spin depending on location