sentences:  Temperatures were 5-6 °C cooler than present and there was a general rain forest retreat.The summer monsoon during the LGM was very weak.Glacial moraines from near the end of the LGM in East Africa show that the south-easterly monsoon was less wet during the LGM than the current dry north-easterly monsoon.Stratus clouds may have been extensive resulting in a cooling effect but little rain.