What’s the difference between a hurricane, cyclone and typhoon?

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are all destructive windstorms, but how do they differ from one another? Learn more.

Meet the medicane, a hurricane’s Mediterranean cousin

The storm, which made landfall this week in Libya, is fairly infrequent, with only a dozen forming between 1982 and 2003.

New 5-day hurricane tracking cone will offer more details this season

Updated hurricane cone maps highlight inland watches and warnings to show storm impacts beyond the forecast cone track.

Tropical Cyclone Horacio becomes monster Category 5 storm

Horacio is spinning in the remote South Indian Ocean. It's a reminder that the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is only three months away.

Cyclone Narelle: ‘compact’, dangerous and unusually predictable

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is currently a very dangerous Category 5 storm, sitting off the Far North Queensland Coast some 350 kilometres northeast of Cooktown. Formed in the Coral Sea, Narelle is packing a punch,
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Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here’s the difference

WASHINGTON(AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines with even more missing and then hit Vietnam Friday. A second typhoon, Fong-Wong, is forecast to hit the Philippines around Sunday and strengthen to a major storm by that time