The National Hurricane Center said Lala’s maximum sustained winds increased to 75 mph (120 kph), making it a Category 1 hurricane. The storm’s center was forecast to move over or near the island’s southern end by the evening, lashing its worst winds at volcanic slopes thousands of feet above sea level.
When I was a kid, I learned that “hurricane” denoted a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic, while “typhoon” was the same type of storm in the Pacific. This made sense because if the news is reporting a named storm, it’s easy to know where the storm is based on the use of “hurricane” or “typhoon.” I guess we’re not doing that anymore. For the US, it’s all hurricanes, and any confusion over which list of names we’re working from is just part of the fun because people supposedly can’t be bothered to know what a typhoon is.
The term is tropical cyclone, no matter where it forms. Typhoon and hurricane are colloquial names.
As I stated in the first sentence of my comment.
On one of the local stations here they noted that when the storm reforms as a hurricane, it will cross the international date line and then become known as a typhoon. So I’m guessing it’s a Western/Eastern hemisphere thing now?