Understanding cyclones is crucial for UPSC aspirants, as it’s a key topic in the geography section of prelims and mains.

Hurricanes are called many different things - typhoons, cyclones, tropical cyclones ... That's why hurricanes originating in the northern hemisphere rotate counterclockwise.

it is deflected by the Coriolis pseudo-force arising from the Earth's rotation. In the northern hemisphere this ‘force' deflects the air to the right, and in the southern hemisphere, to the left.

In the Pacific Ocean, they are known as cyclones. In the Indian Ocean ... between 10 and 30 degrees latitude in the northern hemisphere, where the rotation of the Earth helps the winds converge ...

Be it typhoons, cyclones or hurricanes ... force is caused by the Earth’s rotation that deflects moving objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.

A cyclone starts out over tropical or semitropical waters as what NOAA calls a “rotating” and “organized” series of clouds and thunderstorms. (In the Northern hemisphere they all spin ...

First it was Invest 97L, then it was Potential Tropical Cyclone ... the cyclonic rotation of winds moving around in a circle, sometimes around a clear eye. In the Northern Hemisphere, those ...

Believe it or not, cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons are all the same thing - the only difference is where they form. Hurricanes form in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, central North Pacific Ocean ...

Warm tropical oceans also tend to be hotbeds of cyclones. And yet ... the pre-monsoon season as the Sun crosses over to the Northern Hemisphere. The Bay of Bengal is relatively warmer than ...

It takes 24 hours for the Earth to complete a full rotation:and when it does ... it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, where the UK is located,but winter in the Southern Hemisphere.