Response to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:06 PM
nadinbrzezinski (130,112 posts)
10. Local NWS person called it a cold hurricane.
I would like to quibble. It is the pacific and in the pacific they are called typhoons. But I know why they are using the more familiar term in the Western Pacific.
As others have noted, the nomenclature depends on where it is or where it forms. But this response is for an anecdote.
One of my tours in my Navy career was with VW 1, the "Typhoon Trackers" based in Agana, Guam. I was a flight engineer in WC 121 aircraft, the old Lockheed triple tail Constellation.
Flying into the eye of a typhoon at night was an exciting event. Entering the eye, circling while climbing, and exiting at the top into clear unturbulent air was a great adventure. In large part due to this experience, I can hold an open coffee cup in a car without spilling it.