What's the difference between a hurricane, a typhoon, and a cyclone?

Storm Shield Meteorologist Jason Meyers explains.

They're all just different names for the same thing.

In the Atlantic Ocean and the Northeast Pacific basically the waters surrounding the United States we call them hurricanes.

In the Northwest Pacific near Asia it's a typhoon.

In the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, it's called a cyclone.

The only difference between any of these storms is the direction they spin.

Storms in the northern hemisphere spin counterclockwise, and they spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

All of these storms use the same ingredients to form a weather disturbance, warm tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds.

If the right conditions last, we can end up with a violent storm with damaging winds at least 74 mph, huge waves, incredible amounts of rain, and flooding.

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