Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 18:15:53 JST

@royal Good question! Yep, "bagyo" applies to any storm and typhoon. It's only in Philippine English that we have two words for it. 😅

I'm not sure when it happened. But IIRC, back in the 90s, "storm" and "typhoon" were the same. I guess it was part of PAGASA's (Philippine meteorology agency) to make it easier to distinguish what is weak vs powerful "storms"/"typhoons".

Oh, we still don't use "hurricane", it's still reserved for the Western hemisphere.