Hi Geoff, 
it looks like today is going to be a pretty wild day! Sometropical showery activity with heavy down pours and risk for flooding!

On top of that in the vicinity of those Cumulonimbus clouds, severe and randm gusts can strike unexpectedly. This spell should extend overnight, however gradually becoming less active. Tomorrow (29th) still a few showers but gradually dying off and some sunny spells develop.
Pretty hard to set out an estimated track with timing but made this forecast for the stretch between St-Louis and Dakar, trying to estimate how you would progress. 
All the best and take care.

Day1: 28 August-ESTimatedPosition: 16W16.5
Wind: 330-360° 4-8kt (average wind). After 15utc becoming weak and variable again. But heavy gusts may appear any moment! Overnight turning to SE (140-160°)
Temperatures: night min: 20/22°C - Day max: 28-30°C (these are screen temperatures, out there in the sun temperatures can easily exceed those values with 10 or 15 degrees during the day!)
Weather: see above. Overnight gradually becoming less active but still convective activity around

Day2: 29 August-ESTPosition: N15.5W16.7
Wind: 140-170°3-8kt (average wind), after 09/12utc becoming 200-230°5-10kt. Still gusty. 
Temperatures: night min: 22-24°C - Day max: 30-32°C
Weather: still showery activity but gradually becoming less and eventually ceasing and enlarging sunny spells
 
Day3: 30 August-ESTPosition: N15.2W17.0
Wind: 250-280°3-8kt (average wind), increasing after 9/12utc: 290-320°8-13kt
Temperatures: night min: 24-26°C - Day max: 32-34°C
Weather: sunny spells, increasing clouds after 18utc.

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