Typhoons and Hurricanes, there is a slight difference

From: Lance (Weather and Hurricane Research)
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Time: 00:38:59
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1

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As if Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico http://www.pbrla.com/pasthurrs.html were not enough to worry residents of the bordering states. And as if the Eastern Seaboard https://www.cnmoc.navy.mil/nmosw/tr8203nc/inglesid/text/sect3.htm and we all know that Hurricanes are nothing new; http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadly6.shtml did not have enough to worry about, we should probably thank our lucky stars for if you lived in Japan, Philippines, Taiwan or on the Pacific Rim Shoreline of Asia surely you would have to worry about a much worse force, a Typhoon!!! http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean What is a typhoon and how do these differ from Hurricanes and why do we capitalize such things. Well first we capitalize them because they are natural disasters like Earthquakes, Tidal Waves, Tornadoes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis and other such terrible mother-nature problems http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2000/00-60.html . Even fires and floods are often named and capitalized. Think of the big fires we have battled or the huge flooding from the Mississippi river often simply named after the town with the greatest damage or deaths. This will help you differentiate the types of storms of this nature that we are discussing; http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html . It is apparent that we do not teach these things in school to the degree we should, especially considering the idiots who have beach parties during Hurricanes and how many people can die in a natural disaster. I bet if we educated more people about these issues we would have enough people spending time to study them and finding methods to prevent and predict them better or even stop them. Recently we have watched two serious Typhoons approach islands and land in the Pacific Asian Shoreline at speeds exceeding 250 Kph, luckily it slowed to only 106 mph as it slammed into China’s coast. That is a huge deal, with high seas and other complications. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?onNews=1&GRP=A&id=19869 . People also lost their lives in the Philippines this week from Typhoon. Too bad it did not hit North Korea? Just joking a little. But really we must understand that anything effecting any part of the world with that magnitude effects us indirectly.

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