What's the difference between a hurricane and a tornado?

It's called off-site. Both hurricanes and typhoons refer to tropical cyclones with wind speeds exceeding 33 m/s, but they have different names because of different regions. Strong tropical cyclones generated in the northwest Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea are called "typhoons"; It is generated in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the eastern part of the North Pacific Ocean and is called a "hurricane"; What is produced in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal is called a whirlwind.

Hurricane (pinyin: jù fēng, English: hurricane), the Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean call a strong and deep tropical cyclone (the maximum wind speed is 32.7m/s, and the wind force is above 12) as a hurricane, and it also refers to strong wind, any tropical cyclone and any strong wind with a wind force of 12. There is an eye in the center of the hurricane. The smaller the eyes, the greater the destructive power. Its significance is similar to that of a typhoon, but it is produced in different places.

Typhoon is a classification of tropical cyclones in Asia-Pacific countries or regions north of the equator and west of international date line. In meteorology, according to the definition of the World Meteorological Organization, the sustained wind speed of tropical cyclone center reaches 12 (that is, more than 64 knots, more than 32.7 meters per second, or more than 1 18 kilometers per hour), which is called hurricane or other local synonyms.

The synonym used in the Pacific Northwest is typhoon. Both the World Meteorological Organization and the Japan Meteorological Agency regard this as the highest level tropical cyclone, but some meteorological departments will set a higher level according to their needs, such as the strong typhoon and super typhoon at the China Central Meteorological Observatory and the Hong Kong Observatory, the strong typhoon in central weather bureau, Taiwan Province Province, and the super typhoon at the United States Typhoon Warning Center.