[chris (OP)]

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?

[Colin2B]

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

[alancalverd]

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.

[Colin2B]

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?

[alancalverd]

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

(Answer: curry, sex, and fishing.)

[chris (OP)]

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

[Petrochemicals]

 Is it not hurricanes are anticlockwise and cyclones are clockwise ?

[Colin2B]

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.

[Colin2B]

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.

[Petrochemicals]

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

[Colin2B]

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.