I have a question.

[conuly]

Hurricane Adrian is the first hurricane of the year. That's why it has that cool A name. But when I asked how monsoons are named, I was told that they aren't. Why? Isn't a monsoon a hurricane in the other hemisphere that turns the wrong way round?

Edit: Apparently, I meant typhoons. D'oh. The question still stands.

Comments

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of typhoons, I believe. Monsoons are something else--generally thought of as a heavily rainy season, though the technical definition is more complicated.

[conuly]

Hm. Probably.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Probably because the mainland U.S. is rarely, if ever, directly hit by a typhoon. The Cali coast deals with the long-distance fallout all the time, but I'm not sure if we've ever had to cope with one up close and personal like.

Hurricanes, by comparison, hit the mainland coast a LOT, so we tend to watch those a little more closely and thus develop a much more personal relationship with them.

[conuly]

We're the only people who name acts of weather?

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Apparently I was wrong. (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B1.html) Typhoons ARE named, except in the North Indian Ocean.

My reasoning probably holds for why we generally don't hear about them, though. East Pacific typhoons are apparently quite rare; most occur in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

They are too named there!

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

We name cyclones(I think you call those typhoons).

Monsoon is the wet season(summer). The day starts off sunny and ends up raining by 4-5 o'clock on a proper monsoon day.
Before the weather got all weird here, monsoon rain happened every day in summer.

[conuly]

Cyclones are tornadoes that spin the other way, aren't they?

[rachelkachel]

A cyclone is just any tornado, I think. I've seen the words used interchangeably.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

A "tropical cyclone" is the general term for hurricanes, typhoons, tropical depressions, tropical storms, and a few other various and sundry big-ass storms that originate in the tropics and wander aimlessly around the oceans of the world.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Thyankyou. :-)

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

Due to the fact that the earth is spinning, anything moving over it's surface goes anti clockwise in the north and and clockwise in the southern hemisphere...
In the north, a storm system that is several miles across is called a hurricane. A smaller version is a tornado, or cyclone, and these are measured in metres, not miles across. A tornado touching down can be strong enough to rip a house apart and will devastate a city. A Hurricane will be several miles across and can wreck a whole state or a small country. In the east, they call them typhoons, but they are the same phenomenon.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

A cyclone is not a tornado, it's a hurricane or typhoon.

I'm antipodean & we DO get tornadoes here.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

No. We get tornadoes.

Cyclones = Typhoons.

Y'know, those things you're always getting in Florida?

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

We'd name tornadoes if we didn't have so goddamn many of them.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

http://www.vnbaolut.com/stormfaq.html

[demonkoala.livejournal.com]

In Japan, they're just called "Typhoon number __".

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of typhoons, I believe. Monsoons are something else--generally thought of as a heavily rainy season, though the technical definition is more complicated.

[conuly]

Hm. Probably.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Probably because the mainland U.S. is rarely, if ever, directly hit by a typhoon. The Cali coast deals with the long-distance fallout all the time, but I'm not sure if we've ever had to cope with one up close and personal like.

Hurricanes, by comparison, hit the mainland coast a LOT, so we tend to watch those a little more closely and thus develop a much more personal relationship with them.

[conuly]

We're the only people who name acts of weather?

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Apparently I was wrong. (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B1.html) Typhoons ARE named, except in the North Indian Ocean.

My reasoning probably holds for why we generally don't hear about them, though. East Pacific typhoons are apparently quite rare; most occur in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

They are too named there!

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

We name cyclones(I think you call those typhoons).

Monsoon is the wet season(summer). The day starts off sunny and ends up raining by 4-5 o'clock on a proper monsoon day.
Before the weather got all weird here, monsoon rain happened every day in summer.

[conuly]

Cyclones are tornadoes that spin the other way, aren't they?

[rachelkachel]

A cyclone is just any tornado, I think. I've seen the words used interchangeably.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

A "tropical cyclone" is the general term for hurricanes, typhoons, tropical depressions, tropical storms, and a few other various and sundry big-ass storms that originate in the tropics and wander aimlessly around the oceans of the world.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Thyankyou. :-)

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

Due to the fact that the earth is spinning, anything moving over it's surface goes anti clockwise in the north and and clockwise in the southern hemisphere...
In the north, a storm system that is several miles across is called a hurricane. A smaller version is a tornado, or cyclone, and these are measured in metres, not miles across. A tornado touching down can be strong enough to rip a house apart and will devastate a city. A Hurricane will be several miles across and can wreck a whole state or a small country. In the east, they call them typhoons, but they are the same phenomenon.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

A cyclone is not a tornado, it's a hurricane or typhoon.

I'm antipodean & we DO get tornadoes here.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

No. We get tornadoes.

Cyclones = Typhoons.

Y'know, those things you're always getting in Florida?

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

We'd name tornadoes if we didn't have so goddamn many of them.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

http://www.vnbaolut.com/stormfaq.html

[demonkoala.livejournal.com]

In Japan, they're just called "Typhoon number __".