Every year parts of the planet are hit by devastating typhoons and hurricanes.

They can cause billions of dollars of damage and take hundreds if not thousands of lives.

But why do these storms exist?

What causes their distinctive spiral shape with an eye in the middle?

And why do they only appear in certain parts of the world

at certain times of the year?

And while we're at it, what's the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon anyway?

Learn more about hurricanes and typhoons and how they can become so deadly.

On this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to answer.

What's the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?

The answer is that they're the same thing. They're just different

words used in different parts of the world to describe the same phenomenon.

Both hurricanes and typhoons are classified as tropical cyclones, which are storms with a wind speed beyond a set-up. are forms in the Atlantic Ocean. Almost every hurricane forms north of the equator, usually around

the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico. There has only been one recorded hurricane force tropical

cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hurricane Catarina, not to be confused with Hurricane Katrina,

was a Category 2 hurricane that hit the Southern coast of Brazil

in March of 2004. A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific

ocean north of the equator. These will usually form near East Asia and will frequently hit the

Philippines, Vietnam, China, and Japan.

Tropical Cyclones, which are south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean,

or that form in the Indian Ocean, are just known as Cyclones.

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