Visibility To Deteriorate With Thick Dust Haze In Northern cities

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, through its Central Forecast Office has alerted the public, particularly some Northern cities on the possibility of experiencing dust haze as early as the evening of Sunday.

According to Prof. Mansur Matazu, Chief Executive Officer of NiMet, some cities in Northern Nigeria are likely to start experiencing gradual deterioration in horizontal visibility as a result of dust haze.

“Fresh dust plume has been raised at its source region (Faya Largeau in Chad
Republic). This is expected to advect into the country and reduce horizontal
visibility,” a statement signed by the NiMet boss read in part.

According to the statement, dust haze is expected to intensify before the end of the day over most parts of the Northern cities.

Horizontal visibility will further deteriorate from the evening as thick dust haze should be observed over the Northern cities.

This will keep visibilities to 1000m and below over places like Maiduguri, Yobe Nguru, Potiskum, Dutse, Gombe, Yola, Bauchi, Katsina, Kano, and Kaduna