Typhoon or Hurricane?

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What is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?

Jonathan Comstock, research support specialist in the Department of Horticulture, replies:

‘Typhoon’ and ‘hurricane’ are regional names for the same kind of storm.  They are both special names given to tropical cyclones (large regional storm systems forming over warm tropical ocean water and rotating around a central eye) that have grown strong enough to have very damaging effects.  If you were somewhere bordering the Western North Pacific Ocean, that is, in the Philippines, the coast of China or Japan, and experiencing such a tropical storm with sustained winds over 74 mph, you would be in a typhoon that has moved off the Pacific ocean and hit land. If you were having a similar experience in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean (Hawaii to the Mexican coast) or in the North Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and east coast of North America), you would be in a hurricane.  A ‘Super Typhoon’ is the equivalent of a very strong category 4 or a category 5 Hurricane.