On Sun Aug-16-2015 11:16, Paul Quinn (3:640/1384) wrote to Joe Delahaye:   
      
    PQ> Hi! Joe,   
      
    PQ> 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.   
      
    PQ> It must be a northern hemisphere thing.  We call them cyclones down   
    PQ> here.  I tend to think of these hurricanes as typhoons when the   
    PQ> storm system remains wholly at sea.   
      
   I believe the difference is the rotation of the storm.  In the nothern   
   hemisphere it is counterclockwise, and in the southern hemisphere, clockwise.   
      
    PQ> There's been a few cyclones up in the Soloman Islands, watched   
    PQ> closely by our weather bureau fellas in recent months.  Late in   
    PQ> summer/autumn we did have at least one originating there, that   
    PQ> tracked to our far northern coastal areas and luckily petered out.   
      
   Nasty things in this neck of the woods.  I nicknamed them Evil Eyes.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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