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Supercell vs Cyclone - What's the difference?

supercell | cyclone |

As nouns the difference between supercell and cyclone

is that supercell is a severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes while cyclone is a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.

supercell

English

Noun

(wikipedia supercell) (en noun)
  • A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes.
  • (mineralogy) A repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells.

    • cyclone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.
  • A low pressure system.
  • (popular) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
  • A strong wind.
  • A Southeastern and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon that results in wind speeds of around 150 to 200 km/h.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "cyclone")

    Derived terms

    * anticyclone

    See also

    * hurricane * typhoon *polar vortex * (wikipedia) ----