typhoon

     

Pacific typhoon refers to tropical cyclones forming in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The basin is emarcated within the Pacific Ocean from Asia, north of the equator, and west of the international date line. Storms from the Eastern and Central Pacific crossing the date line are re-designated as typhoons. This basin features the strongest cyclones on record.

Trivia about typhoon

  • "Great wind", a tropical cyclone
  • The name of this type of storm means "great wind"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows satellite video of storm movement on two monitors at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) A tropical storm in the North Atlantic that reaches 74 miles per hour is called a hurricane; if it's here in the Northwest Pacific, it's classified as this
  • "An unimaginative sea captain sees his ship through a deadly storm" in this Joseph Conrad work with a stormy title
  • The lowest pressure at sea level was 25.69", measured during one of these tropical storms in the Philippine Sea
  • The name of this violent tropical cyclone of the Western Pacific comes from Cantonese for "Big Wind"
  • (Jeff Probst reports from Palau.) Luckily, Palau is outside the zone of these storms, whose name comes from a Chinese word that means "great wind"
  • In a 1903 work, this title type of storm hits the Nan-Shan on its way to China

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