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Title: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: chris on 10/10/2019 07:55:35

So the rugby is in trouble owing to the weather! But what's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane? Is this just terminology, or is there a physical difference?

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Colin2B on 10/10/2019 08:36:30

It’s just location. In the NW Pacific they are called typhoons.

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: alancalverd on 10/10/2019 08:38:18

Longitude.

Or altitude! The Hawker Hurricane was successful  as a dogfighter but the Typhoon, though intended for high altitude combat, was never fast enough and was mostly used for ground attack.

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Colin2B on 10/10/2019 09:11:33

Quote from: alancalverd on 10/10/2019 08:38:18

The Hawker Hurricane was successful  as a dogfighter but the Typhoon, ...........

Oh,  very good. Didn’t think about that

Er, how do those planes affect rugby?

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: alancalverd on 10/10/2019 10:41:17

Beer, rugby, aeroplanes, cricket. What else is there?

(Answer: curry, sex, and fishing.)

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: chris on 12/10/2019 21:50:44

Surely the answer is that we've had a hurricane - but not a typhoon - in snooker...? Rugby, sore point...

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 12/10/2019 22:37:11

 Is it not hurricanes are anticlockwise and cyclones are clockwise ?

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Colin2B on 12/10/2019 23:09:47

Quote from: Petrochemicals on 12/10/2019 22:37:11

Is it not hurricanes are anticlockwise and cyclones are clockwise ?

Storms that form north of the equator spin counterclockwise. Storms south of the equator spin clockwise.
Hurricanes and typhoons form N of equator, to the S they are called cyclones.

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Colin2B on 12/10/2019 23:12:53

Quote from: chris on 12/10/2019 21:50:44

Surely the answer is that we've had a hurricane - but not a typhoon - in snooker...?

If his surname had been Timmings you could have had Typhoon Timmings.

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 13/10/2019 04:51:44

Quote from: Colin2B on 12/10/2019 23:12:53

Quote from: chris on 12/10/2019 21:50:44

Surely the answer is that we've had a hurricane - but not a typhoon - in snooker...?

If his surname had been Timmings you could have had Typhoon Timmings.

The aliteration fans usualy go for Tornado. Now if Vidal Sasoon played snooker rather than doing hair......

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wattana

Title: Re: What's the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
Post by: Colin2B on 13/10/2019 08:44:30

Quote from: Petrochemicals on 13/10/2019 04:51:44

The aliteration fans usualy go for Tornado.

I was going for the alliteration in Ty.. and Ti.., but I can understand their whirlwind romance with Tornado.