Expect moderate dust haze, cloudy weather on Sunday — NiMet

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted moderate dust haze over the Central States of the country on Sunday.

NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Saturday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range of 27 to 36 and 11 to 23 degrees Celsius respectively.

The agency predicted that the southern states would experience cloudy to partly cloudy over the coast in the morning hours with slim chances of isolated thunderstorm over Eket, Calabar and Port-Harcourt in the afternoon and evening hours.

It also predicted hazy conditions over the inland cities throughout the day with day and night temperatures in the range of 30 to 35 and 19 to 24 degrees Celsius respectively

According to NiMet, northern states will experience moderate dust haze with localised horizontal visibility to less than or equal to 2,000m over some places throughout the forecast period.

“The region is expected to have day and night temperatures in the range of 31 to 36 degrees Celsius and 12 to 19 degrees Celsius respectively.

“No Fresh dust has been raised over Chad republic, moderate dust haze expected to prevail throughout the forecast period from Northern state down to the Central cities.

“Part of the inland of the southern states are expected to be Sunny and Hazy condition with slim chances of localized thunderstorms within the next 24 hours,” NiMet predicted.