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myinsidesarecopper t1_itm781h wrote

Reply to comment by iim7_V6_IM7_vim7 in Hurricane Roslyn batters Mexico's Pacific coast by Janiththa

They are called hurricanes, but they rarely make landfall on the west coast of North America because the direction of the winds in the tropics blows east to west (aka away from the west coast).

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iim7_V6_IM7_vim7 t1_itmacj7 wrote

For some reason I thought the name changed to typhoon or cyclone or something when it was in the pacific. Always seemed like a weird, arbitrary thing to me to have the name be different based on the ocean it was over so I guess it makes sense that I was wrong lol

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myinsidesarecopper t1_itmbnua wrote

Cyclones are called Typhoons when they develop between the meridians 180° and 100°E. East of that line, they're called hurricanes. South of the equator, they're typically just called a cyclone.

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