Summer in Africa is very hot. How do locals escape the summer?

Speaking of Africa, most people probably associate it with dark skin and hot weather. Actually, it's not. The temperature in Africa is uneven. No one lives in a place that is too hot, while other places are not very hot or even cool.

Is Africa hot or not? The heat is certain, but this heat is not ordinary heat, but focused heat. Although the equator crosses the central part of the African continent, the hottest place in Africa is near the Tropic of Cancer. For example, in the Sahara region of North Africa, due to the influence of subtropical high, the airflow sinks, and the surface water can't evaporate and float to the high altitude to contact with cold air. In addition, the northeast trade wind blowing from the eastern land is relatively dry, and it is not easy to form rainfall, which leads to very dry heat here. The other one is in Africa? High fever? This area is the Congo basin, and the climate is always hot and rainy. However, people are smart and will choose their own place to live. It's so hot in these two places that there are naturally no crowded people living and living.

Some parts of Africa can really escape the summer. Africa is a plateau continent. Most inland areas in sub-Saharan Africa are above 1000 meters above sea level, and the temperature keeps between 20℃ and 30℃ all the year round, which makes people feel very comfortable. Even in countries near the equator, such as Ethiopia, the weather is quite cool. Because the average altitude of the Ethiopian plateau is 2500 to 3000 meters, it presents a plateau and mountain climate, which offsets the high temperature characteristics of the equatorial low latitude. In summer, the highest temperature in the capital Addis Ababa is rare. The weather in Africa is mostly dry and hot. Controlled alternately by the equatorial low pressure area and the trade wind area, most parts of Africa have a savanna climate, with only rainy and dry seasons. When the dry season comes, although the temperature is still high, the rain will be very scarce. The northern and southern ends of the African continent belong to the Mediterranean climate, which is characterized by dry summer and humid winter. Naturally, African friends in these areas rarely suffer from heatstroke.