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Article: Driving south: hot weather forecast for Sahara rally.
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- Geographical
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- January 1, 2006
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The Paris-Dakar rally, in which competitors in cars and on motorbikes race across the inhospitable Sahara Desert, is held this month. So what sort of conditions can the competitors expect and what is the climate there like during the rest of the year?
The West African climate is most definitely a tale of two seasons--wet and dry--but as with anything to do with the weather, it isn't as simple as that. South towards Dakar, the capital of Senegal, the dry season occurs throughout the northern winter months; there is often no rain at all from January to May and very little outside the main wet months of July, August and September. The timing and length of the wet ...