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A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h (74 mph). [1] This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin , [ 2 ] accounting for almost one third of the world's tropical cyclones.
Ahead of the 2007 hurricane season, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) and the Hawaii State Civil Defense requested that the hurricane committee retire eleven names from the Eastern Pacific naming lists. [69] However, the committee declined the request and noted that its criteria for the retirement of names was "well defined and very ...
Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (/ ˈ h ʌr ɪ k ən,-k eɪ n /), typhoon (/ t aɪ ˈ f uː n /), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean.
The strongest hurricane to reach land was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (892 hPa). [12] The deadliest hurricane was the Great Hurricane of 1780 (22,000 fatalities). [54] The deadliest hurricane to make landfall on the continental United States was the Galveston Hurricane in 1900, which may have killed up to 12,000 people. [55]
Cyclone vs. hurricane vs. typhoon: These are all terms used to name the same type of tropical storms, it just depends what ocean the storm is in. In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean, a storm ...
From Juracán we derive the Spanish word huracán and eventually the English word hurricane.As the pronunciation varied across indigenous groups, many of the alternative names, as mentioned in the OED, included furacan, furican, haurachan, herycano, hurachano, hurricano, and so on.
The name may ultimately derive from huracan, a Carib word, [6] and the source of the words hurricane and orcan (European windstorm). Related deities are Tohil in Kʼiche mythology, Bolon Tzacab in Yucatec mythology, Cocijo in Zapotec mythology, and Tezcatlipoca in Aztec mythology.
Hurricane Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone viewed from the International Space Station on March 26, 2004. The term "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively in tropical regions of the globe, [46] and their dependence on Maritime Tropical air masses for their formation