What is the difference between a hurricane a tornado & a twister?
A hurricane or tropical cyclone is called different things in different parts of the world but they are the same. For example, in the Indian Ocean they are referred to as cyclones, in Australia cyclones or willy-willies, in the western north Pacific as typhoons and in the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans as hurricanes. Hurricanes or tropical cyclones are the ultimate in a heat engines. It takes water vapor and transforms a small portion of the latent heat in water vapor into energy. The vast amount of water vapor needed to support a hurricane dictates that it can only form and maintain itself while over open…warm waters of an ocean or sea. The hurricane in a sort of simplistic sense can be thought of as a well organized cluster of thunderstorms that are mutually supporting and contribute additional heat and energy to the tropical storm. Tropical cyclones form in areas adjacent to the equator (theoretically not on the equator) and turn counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere an
