When hurricane season is in full swing, the news can be difficult to parse. What’s the difference between a hurricane and a ...

When hurricane season is in full swing, the news can be difficult to parse. What’s the difference between a hurricane and a tropical cyclone, after all, and what on Earth is an eye wall replacement ...

With this year’s hurricane season under way, Al Jazeera visualises the differences between various storm systems.

Cyclone is used in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. Hurricanes are split into one of five classes based on how strong the winds are, based on the 'Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale'.

Erin, the first hurricane to develop over the Atlantic this year, became post-tropical on Friday afternoon, the National ...

The only time when a hurricane would become a typhoon is if the storm crossed the International Date Line at 180 degrees west longitude. This happened recently in 2014, when Hurricane Genevieve ...

What's the difference? Typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes are actually all technically the same thing: a tropical cyclone. They are just referred to by different names based on where they form.

Typhoon Wipha made landfall in Taishan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Sunday evening, according to Guangdong’s meteorological service, after battering Hong Kong and Macau with ...

Sources and notes Tracking map Tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The map shows probabilities of at least 5 percent. The forecast is for up to ...