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Weather
By Sumaila Ogbaje
Abuja, March, 17, 2017 (NAN) The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunny weather conditions over the central states of the country on Saturday, especially Abuja and Minna.
NiMet gave the prediction in the Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office (CFO), on Friday in Abuja.
It added that cities like Lafia, Lokoja, and Makurdi were expected to be partly cloudy with day and night temperature of 31 to 40 and 15 to 24 degrees Celsius respectively.
The agency predicted that southern states would experience partly cloudy to cloudy conditions with prospects of localised thunderstorms over Lagos, Benin, Port-harcourt, Eket, Calabar, Osogbo and Akure during afternoon and evening hours.
It also predicted that the region would have day and night time temperatures in the ranges of 34 to 40 and 23 to 28 degrees Celsius respectively.
According to NiMet, northern states will experience sunny and hazy conditions with day and Night temperature of 37 to 41 and 13 to 21 degrees Celsius respectively.
“With a gradual influx of moisture into the country, the coastal regions up to the high grounds of the inland cities have prospects of thunderstorms in the next 24 hours,” NiMet predicted.(NAN)
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Edited by Felix Ajide