The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dust haze weather conditions over the Central States of the country on Thursday with partly cloudy skies over Ilorin, Lokoja, Makurdi and Mambilla Plateau.

NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Wednesday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range of 28 – 37℃ and 11 – 16℃ respectively.

The agency predicted that the southern states would experience cloudy conditions in the morning hours with chances of isolated thunderstorms over the coastal cities of Lagos, Warri, Calabar, Port-Harcourt and Yenagoa later in the day.

It also predicted isolated thunderstorms over the high ground areas of Ibadan, Osogbo and Ado-Ekiti, with day and night temperatures in the range of 33 – 37℃ and 20 – 24℃ respectively.

According to NiMet, Northern states will experience dust haze with horizontal visibility range of one to three kilometres over the entire region during the forecast period.

“There are prospects of localised visibility of less than 1,000 metres over few cities around the region with day and night temperatures in the range of 31 – 36℃ and 11 – 18℃ respectively.

“The northern parts of the country are expected to be under the influence of dust haze and the same conditions are expected to prevail down to some parts of the central cities.

“However, Isolated cases of thunderstorms are expected over the coast and high grounds areas of the south west in the next 24 hours’’ NiMet predicted. (NAN)

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