Brazzaville Skies

"If a house on the Congo River conjures up dark forest, luxuriant foliage, brilliant sunshine, excessive heat, elephants, hippos, crocodiles, mosquitoes, tsetses, sandflies and jiggers, it is deceptive. All these things exist in Equatorial Africa, but not in the same place or at the same time.

There is no tropical forest or luxuriant foliage within several days of Brazzaville. The country round is bare or overgrown, according to the season. Nothing thrives normally. I never remember seeing brilliant sunshine for a whole day. The sky is generally overcast, the sun rarely piercing through the clouds for more than two hours at a time. When it blazes down untrammelled it naturally scorches you. Of all surprises in Africa, this for me was the greatest, having lived in tropical Asia, where the sun is rarely hidden. "

From Life in French Congo by Gabrielle Vassal 1925

I say ditto to this, despite hearing the description from Al about the gray skies of the dry season, I never fully anticipated these cloudy skies...a surprise for me too, Gabrielle..