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I was trying to find the difference between a cyclone and a tornado and came across this site.
Thought you might find it interesting for other curious comparisons.
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/differences-between-cyclone-and-tornado/

Don´t forget obout the humbler Dust Devil!

This is why I was curious
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_9073513d-e81f-505d-a775-b6bf0a91f13e.html

Mister E wrote:

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Don´t forget obout the humbler Dust Devil!

No relation to the Dyson
http://www.dyson.com/vacuums/wmdd.asp

The Dust Devil is a small cyclone we get out in the southwestern states- they ususally are good at finding picnics and any outdoor gathering in AZ.... sends everything flying.

Not to be confused with the Dust Devil hand vacuum cleaner.

I looked at the Great Cyclone article. Perhaps the difference in the terminoligy is more indicative of the vocabulary of the time (late 1800´s) than a scientific distinction. Words like rapacious, or connundrum, for example, were common wheras today they sound antiquated. Just guessing though...

Talk about apples and oranges.
Cyclones and typhoons are hurricanes.

I once saw a water spout form over Lake Pontchartrain.
I was sittin' on my deck smokin' a cigar. I watched
it for about fifteen minutes. It broke apart when it
hit the south shore near Irish Bayou.

I thought it was a hurricane in the Atlantic and a typhoon if it was in the Pacific. And that a tornado was an on land funnel cloud and a cyclone was one a sea.

Can't we just call everything marklar.

ZeroContent wrote:

I thought it was a hurricane in the Atlantic and a typhoon if it was in the Pacific. And that a tornado was an on land funnel cloud and a cyclone was one a sea.

Can't we just call everything marklar.

Awwww, semantics! They´re just big f%&kin' storms!



Seriously, I think you´re correct on all counts.....

MisterE wrote:

ZeroContent wrote:

I thought it was a hurricane in the Atlantic and a typhoon if it was in the Pacific. And that a tornado was an on land funnel cloud and a cyclone was one a sea.

Can't we just call everything marklar.

Awwww, semantics! They´re just big f%&kin' storms!



Seriously, I think you´re correct on all counts.....

What do you mean "just" storms? These are blood thirsty, killer weather events people! Weather with a vendetta against poor, innocent folks!

Disclaimer: I in no way mean to make light of those who experienced the recent weather related disasters. In fact, a good friend that I play in a band with chose the wrong time to go to Missouri pick up a 1960 Cadillac. He called me a day after the tornadoes hit, and he was about 200 miles from Joplin. I think he's OK, but it must have been quite a ride.

Here is a water spout
http://www.wimp.com/waterspouttornado/

Now that is cool! Are they as powerful as a tornado though?

Maybe the same one Bub posted ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/8546017/Dramatic-water-tornado-appears-off-Australia-coast.html