Technically cyclones only appear in the southern hemisphere. So the US, Cuba etc would've had 0 cyclones. In the northern hemisphere they're called hurricanes or tornados or whatever.
Technically cyclones can be found everywhere. Hurricanes are tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, and they are called typhoons in the Pacific and just called cyclones in the Indian.
Nope. "Tropical cyclone" is a generic term. In the Atlantic and Eastern/Central Pacific they're called hurricanes, and the in the Western Pacific they're called typhoons. Most tropical cyclones form in the northern hemisphere but, as you can see, Australia gets their fair share.
We absolutely get our fair share. Cyclone Debbie hit north Queensland just a few months ago and caused millions in damage. Cyclone Tracy was the probably the worst though. It hit Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974 and literally tore it apart.
In my grandparents' generation (at least in my region of the US) tornadoes were commonly called cyclones. In the book, Wizard of Oz, the storm that hit Kansas was called a cyclone. Anyone remember the tall tale of Pecos Bill riding the cyclone in Texas? He rode on what I would call a tornado. It may not be correct to refer to a tornado as a cyclone, but it was quite common when I was young, and I still hear it today, as well as weather forecasters talking about mesocyclones forming as a part of tornadoes.
Why not just say hurricane or typhoon or whatever? It's the same thing. The wind doesn't give 2 hoots whether it's tearing across an ocean English speaking humans call the Pacific or Atlantic. It's a thoroughly pointless exercise in pedantry.
at least from what I've seen, here in the US a tropical cyclone can also be a storm that does not have fast enough winds to be classified as a hurricane
I guess if you have a country with a larger land mass then of course it has more chance of the cyclone going over it and therefore adding one to its total. Smaller island nations although maybe more prone geographically probably get missed more often than not.
Well, the other three (Brazil, Canada, Russia) are either too cold for many cyclones to hit them or their region (Brazil w the South Atlantic) is very inactive.
I am shocked that the Bahamas doesn't make the list. It seems to me that if the hurricane hits Cuba or the US, it is going to at least brush up against the Bahamas.
I looked into this and it seems most of the tropical storms and hurricanes approach the Bahamas via north or northwest. Hence, Florida will weaken many hurricanes into tropical storms for the Bahamas. If the quiz included tropical storms with hurricanes then the Bahamas would be almost equal to the US.
I had no idea you were talking about North America. Hurricanes are what they are called in Mexico, the Caribbean, and the US. So, I thought you were referring to the western Pacific or perhaps Indian. Confusing. Fixable.
""Cyclone" is a generic term that includes hurricanes and typhoons". If you can't be bothered to read the instructions I'm really not sure I can help you.
I've never heard of a cyclone near Madagascar - except I've heard of them in Mozambique, the country on the opposite side of the Mozambique Strait, which is right next to Madagascar.
You may be thinking of monsoons. India occasionally gets hit by a tropical cyclone, but Bangladesh is protected on one side by India and on the other side by Indochina. Most of the severe flooding and torrential rain that you hear about in India and, especially, Bangladesh, are monsoons.
This wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tropical_cyclones_in_Fiji lists 36 tropical cyclones which have hit Fiji since 1970, which would make it an inclusion in this quiz.
Given the source is the "Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory", I have doubts they are truly interested in properly counting events from the other side of the globe.
source says "However, it should be noted that some basins have longer histories of such activity and this might bias these counts. So the following is the ranking if we only look at storms since 1970, when world-wide satellite coverage became available." tbf
maybe the uk, france and netherlands shouldve been here because of their overseas territories(turks and caicos islands,martinique,curacao etc) are in thw caribbean which theyre most likely to get hurricanes and they have in the past
Given the source is the "Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory", I have doubts they are truly interested in properly counting events from the other side of the globe.
Was not expecting the tornadoes though..........