This image, taken June 21, 1998, shows a cloud pattern which is typical of those found over southern Africa in the dry season.  The image is a combination of infrared and visual wavelengths and has been strongly colored to make clouds and ground stand out more dramatically.

Low level clouds and fog over the waters of the Atlantic have a distinct yellowish cast but should prove little problem for mobile ship-board observers.  These clouds occasionally push up against the Angolan coast but are blocked from moving inland by the sharp rise in terrain.  

In the western interior skies are sunny along the eclipse track, though a few patches of mid-level cloud can be seen at the north edge of the track.  Most of the cloud which affects this area (and there is very little) comes from the east, blown by the prevailing trade winds.  Farther east along the track cloud cover begins to increase and an extensive area of cumulus and mid-level cloud can be seen outlining much of the coast an interior lowlands of Mozambique.  This cloud extends as far inland as Lake Kariba on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, becoming gradually thinner and more scattered toward the west.

Patchy mid-level cloud can be seen drifting over the waters of the Mozambique Channel, but skies in western Madagascar are cloud-free.  The east coast of Madagascar also has fine weather, except for the immediate coastline where trade winds blowing off the Indian Ocean have piled up cloud against the mountainous backbone of the island.