WATCH OUT, HONG KONG: Here's Why Typhoons Are So Dangerous

Huge "Super Typhoon" Usagi is headed towards Hong Kong at the moment. While it is set to weaken by the time it makes landfall later today, it is currently spewing 190 mile-per-hour winds. A typhoon is a Pacific Ocean cyclone and the same meteorological event as a hurricane, just leaving the tropics toward the Pacific instead of the Atlantic and making landfall in a different part of the world. These storms are more frequent and more intense than Atlantic hurricanes. Like hurricanes, typhoons for...