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Why do tropical cyclone Eloise develo in late summer​

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During the late summer months the sea surface temperatures reach their highest levels and provide tropical cyclones with the energy they need to develop into major storms.
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Answer:

warm ocean

weak wind

hurricanes

Step-by-step explanation:

Tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin are most numerous during late summer and early autumn because that is the time of year when the two most important ingredients needed for their formation — warm ocean waters (80 degrees or higher) and weak vertical wind shear (little change in wind direction and/or speed with height) — are most prevalent. This is also the season with the highest frequency of west-moving weather disturbances in the tropics that eventually develop into hurricanes. Water, with its high specific heat, is slow to warm, and the tropical oceans in the Northern Hemisphere reach their highest temperature in August and early September, many weeks after the time of strongest solar insolation.

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