One of the tell-tale signs of hot season are dust devils, kind of like mini-whirlwinds (there is an interesting article on wikipedia if you want more details on what they are!). Most of them we see are under a metre wide and just a few metres high, but occasionally a larger one whips through our property sending dust flying (we run round trying to shut all windows if we can!).
In Monkolé they are called "fufu dabii" (= wandering wind) and people are wary of them. Some people try to throw stones at them to make them go away, and there is a belief that firing a gun into them will "kill" them.
We saw this bigger one a few weeks ago:
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