• jmiller
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    2 months ago

    A typhoon is what we call a hurricane when it is over the northwest Pacific Ocean. A tornado is a very different event. A hurricane covers an area 1000x or more larger than a tornado, but the tornado has significatly higher wind speeds, and is much more dangerous if you are directly under it, but you will likely be fine standing in your yard half a mile away. As many cell phone videos show. Until it turns towards you, because they don’t always travel in consistant directions. As many cell phone videos show.

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      2 months ago

      Point is that the Chinese call both tornados and hurricanes typhoons, not what you call them.

      I’ve been through both a number of times, so don’t need an instruction.

      Best time: under a craps table in a casino during a hurricane

      Most terrified: was hiking in a forest when the tornado hit. Broke trees and sent them flying. Hung onto a rock.

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        2 months ago

        the Chinese call both tornados and hurricanes typhoons

        Which dialect? I call typhoon 颱風 and tornado 龍捲風

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        2 months ago

        TIL! I had never heard the typhoon was used for both tornados and hurricanes in China, had just heard of their Typhoon rating sytem that seems to apply more to what would be called a hurricane in the states.

        But the storm in the article was not a tornado. The 3 people who were pulled from their homes lived in a high rise, and had large windows that failed in the wind, and they were blown out.