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Weather
By Sumaila Ogbaje
Abuja, April 4, 2017 (NAN) The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted partly cloudy to cloudy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Wednesday.
NiMet gave the prediction in its Weather Outlook by the Central Forecast Office on Tuesday in Abuja.
It added that the region would have day and night temperature of 34 to 40 and 19 to 30 degrees Celsius respectively.
The agency predicted that southern states would experience cloudy conditions over the inland and coastal cities with prospects of thunderstorms over Oshogbo and Ado-Ekiti during the morning hours.
It also predicted afternoon and evening localised thunderstorms over Ijebu-Ode, Abakaliki, Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Calabar, Lagos, Eket and Yenagoa with day and night temperatures of 32 to 37 and 21 to 26 degrees Celsius respectively.
According to NiMet, northern states are expected to experience sunny and hazy conditions with day and night temperature of 31 to 41 and 18 to 26 degrees Celsius respectively.
“Sunny weather conditions are expected over most parts of the northern cities with chances of isolated thunderstorms over the southern cities in the next 24 hours,’’ NiMet predicted. (NAN)
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Edited by Jane-Frances Oraka/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu