FifteenthPen

FifteenthPen t1_j33j4ux wrote

It's more complicated than that, and mostly has to do with what people in a given region usually call them. Storms in the Atlantic and northeast Pacific (headed for North America or Europe) are hurricanes, storms in the west Pacific and east Indian Ocean (headed for east/southeast Asia) are typhoons, and storms in the south Pacific and west Indian Ocean (headed for Australia, the Middle East, or east Africa) are called cyclones.

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