Compare cyclone and thunder storms
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A cyclone is in the Pacific, it is created the same way as hurricanes. Usually cyclones can be more powerful because of the size of the Pacific and the warmer waters. A cyclone is a counter rotating large storm system that is driven by the heat of the water. It brings high winds and drenching rain.
A thunderstorm, can have some rotation but not always. Sometimes there are winds but not nearly as strong as a cyclone. Cyclones and hurricanes often generate thunderstorms in their path.
How do thunderstorms and cyclones differ?
Thunderstorms are formed due to convective activity with a good convergence of wind in a local area. During summer, heat over land increases resulting in rising of hot air into atmosphere forming cumulonimbus clouds. This grows into a thunderstorm.
Cyclones are formed by low pressure area in tropical seas. Normally low pressure areas where cyclones spread over hundreds of kilometers. Tropical seas have relatively high sea surface temperatures, moisture content and when less wind shear accompanies, the convergence of winds around the low pressure area forms a cyclone and lets it grow.
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Originally Answered: How are thunderstorms different from a cyclone?
A cyclone is in the Pacific, it is created the same way as hurricanes. Usually cyclones can be more powerful because of the size of the Pacific and the warmer waters. A cyclone is a counter rotating large storm system that is driven by the heat of the water. It brings high winds and drenching rain.
A thunderstorm, can have some rotation but not always. Sometimes there are winds but not nearly as strong as a cyclone. Cyclones and hurricanes often generate thunderstorms in their path.
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Originally Answered: What are the differences between a cyclone and thunderstorms?
A thunderstorm is a storm usually with Rain, Highwinds and Lightening and thunder hence the name Thunderstorm. A Cyclone is a high wind storm that rotates into a vortex that can lift houses cars and people into the air. It is similarly called a Whirlwind, Twister, or Tornado in different locations?
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In simple terms: A cyclone is a collection of thunderstorms swirling around a low pressure area,whereas a thunderstorm is the product of moisture, unstable air and lift.
One is far far larger than the other:
^ Biggest cyclone ever known.
^ scattered thunderstorms
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Originally Answered: What is the difference between thunderstorms and cyclone?
Both are the result of a strong low pressure but the cyclone is much, much larger!
First a bit of semantic: Cyclone means, in ancient Greek, a spin. As such, any low pressure of rising and spinning air, could be called, a cyclone. The opposite, a sinking air mass, is then called, an anticyclone.
But the word, cyclone, is usually reserved for a hurricane or, force 12 in the Beaufort scale (wind superior to 64 knots) in the Indian Ocean. In the Pacific, it is called, typhoon, and, hurricane in the Atlantic.
A thunderstorm a a simple strong cell of rising unstable air that rises all the way to the top of the troposphere. It has a relatively small radius and there can be several thunderstorms e.g. along an advancing cold front.
In the Pacific, it is called, typhoon, and, hurricane in the Atlantic. A thunderstorm a a simple strong cell of rising unstable air that rises all the way to the top of the troposphere. ... Sometimes there are winds but not nearly as strong as a cyclone. Cyclones and hurricanes often generate thunderstorms in their path