bazz_and_yellow t1_j32qvly wrote on January 5, 2023 at 5:37 PM

Reply to comment by Pawneewafflesarelife in A powerful cyclone slams California, killing a child. Now, more flooding and ferocious winds are on tap for the weather-ravaged state by rootoo

Cyclones are just intense weather events. I think you are confusing typhoons vs hurricanes.

ImperialRedditer t1_j332twy wrote on January 5, 2023 at 6:47 PM

Some parts of the world (Southern Hemisphere and Indian Ocean) also call tropical cyclones cyclones.

bazz_and_yellow t1_j334632 wrote on January 5, 2023 at 6:55 PM

And they can. Cyclones can occur anywhere.

Pawneewafflesarelife t1_j3air3z wrote on January 7, 2023 at 3:58 AM

I was going off this Wikipedia article:

>In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone

I'm still fuzzy on the terms - moved to Australia and they are different from the terms I learned in the states.