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Ask CNN: "What's the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?"

Aired August 16, 2001 - 09:49   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: A CNN viewer wants to know: "What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?"

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MAX MAYFIELD, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone, and that's the designation that we use in the Atlantic, the Eastern Pacific and the Central Pacific. In the Northwest Pacific, they have a different name, typhoon. But a typhoon is the same thing as a hurricane.

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