There are always typhoons in Asia and hurricanes in America. What is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?

In fact, this concept is very simple. Generally speaking, typhoons and hurricanes occur in completely different places. In other respects, their occurrence conditions and calculation methods of series are similar, but both of them are very bad weather phenomena. When this kind of weather happens, everyone should pay attention to avoid it and don't blindly deal with it, especially outdoors.

These two kinds of weather and meteorology actually come from a weather situation, commonly known as tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclone is a general term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating weather system composed of clouds and thunderstorms produced in tropical or subtropical waters.

Here is a new definition, that is, tropical depression. Low-intensity tropical cyclones are also called tropical depressions. If a low pressure gradually increases and the maximum sustained wind speed reaches 39 mph, then a tropical cyclone becomes a tropical storm. Once the maximum sustained wind speed of a tropical cyclone reaches or exceeds 74 mph, it can be divided into hurricanes, typhoons or tropical cyclones according to different origins. This is the location problem we just mentioned. The only difference between typhoon and hurricane is that the two weather phenomena appear in completely different locations.

To sum up, the difference between typhoon and hurricane is actually very small, but the location is different. If you live in a place with frequent typhoons, you must pay more attention to protective measures. Typhoon and hurricane are very powerful, so we must take precautions and act according to the instructions of the Meteorological Observatory.