On Sun Aug-16-2015 11:16, Paul Quinn (3:640/1384) wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 PQ> Hi! Joe,

 PQ> On 16/08/2015 6:53 AM, you wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RN>> * When in the Pacific. I thought those storms were called
 RN>> typhoons, but I suppose it wasn't far enough west.

 JD> I too thought that anything in the Pacific, was a typhoon.

 PQ> It must be a northern hemisphere thing.  We call them cyclones down
 PQ> here.  I tend to think of these hurricanes as typhoons when the
 PQ> storm system remains wholly at sea.

I believe the difference is the rotation of the storm.  In the nothern
hemisphere it is counterclockwise, and in the southern hemisphere, clockwise.

 PQ> There's been a few cyclones up in the Soloman Islands, watched
 PQ> closely by our weather bureau fellas in recent months.  Late in
 PQ> summer/autumn we did have at least one originating there, that
 PQ> tracked to our far northern coastal areas and luckily petered out.

Nasty things in this neck of the woods.  I nicknamed them Evil Eyes.


Regards,

Roger 
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