What determines whether a powerful tropical cyclone is called a hurricane or a typhoon?

Other conditions are favorable. Which sea-surface temperature meets the commonly cited minimum for tropical cyclone development?

Which phase change forms liquid cloud droplets as moist air rises and cools in a developing storm?

What happens to heat when water vapor changes into cloud droplets inside a tropical cyclone?

What happens to moist air lifted where winds meet in the ITCZ?

Which part of the mature tropical cyclone is marked A?

At which labeled part are a mature storm's strongest sustained winds usually found?

What weather does the cloud feature marked C bring to areas away from the storm's center?

PAGASA primarily assigns a tropical cyclone's intensity category using which measurement?

A bulletin reports a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 50 km/h. What is its PAGASA category?

Using the table, which recorded cyclone belongs in PAGASA's tropical storm category?

A cyclone's maximum sustained winds increase from 80 to 100 km/h. Which PAGASA category does it enter?

Which maximum sustained wind speed fits PAGASA's typhoon category?

To qualify as a super typhoon under PAGASA's system, a cyclone must reach at least which maximum sustained wind speed?

Which process is most directly reduced when a typhoon's center moves far inland?

How does rough terrain generally affect the near-surface circulation of a passing typhoon?

Moist typhoon winds blow from the sea across a mountain range. Which side usually receives more rainfall caused by mountain lifting?

What chiefly produces storm surge along a coast during a typhoon?

Which geographic factor best explains the Philippines' frequent exposure to tropical cyclones?

A weakened typhoon moves from land back over a broad stretch of warm sea. If other conditions stay favorable, what is most likely to happen?