Slight dust haze, partly cloudy atmosphere to prevail on Tuesday – NiMet
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By Sumaila Ogbaje
Abuja, Feb. 13, 2017 (NAN) The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted slight dust haze conditions over the central States of the country on Tuesday.
NiMet gave the prediction in its Weather Outlook by the Central Forecast Office on Monday in Abuja.
It also predicted that the region would have day and night temperature of 36 to 39 degrees Celsius and 19 to 23 degrees Celsius, respectively. The agency predicted southern states would experience partly cloudy conditions over southwest inland and hazy conditions to the southeast inland with early morning mist/fog patches over southwest coast.
It also predicted chances of isolated rains over Lagos, Ijebu Ode and Benin in the afternoon and evening period with day and night temperatures of 36 to 38 and 23 to 27 degrees Celsius, respectively.
According to NiMet, northern states will experience dust haze conditions with reduced horizontal visibility range between two to five kilometres around the northeast in the next 24 hours.
“Northern states will also have day and night temperature values in the range of 31 to 36 and 13 to 21 degrees Celsius, respectively.
“Dust haze situation is expected in the Northern cities with horizontal visibility of two to five kilometers around north eastern cities while central cities are expected to be in dust haze,” NiMet predicted. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola