Hi! Joe,   
      
   On 16/08/2015 6:53 AM, you wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RN>> * When in the Pacific. I thought those storms were called   
    RN>> typhoons, but I suppose it wasn't far enough west.   
      
    JD> I too thought that anything in the Pacific, was a typhoon.   
      
   It must be a northern hemisphere thing.  We call them cyclones down here.  I   
   tend to think of these hurricanes as typhoons when the storm system remains   
   wholly at sea.   
      
   There's been a few cyclones up in the Soloman Islands, watched closely by our   
   weather bureau fellas in recent months.  Late in summer/autumn we did have at   
   least one originating there, that tracked to our far northern coastal areas   
   and luckily petered out.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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