The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunny and hazy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Monday.

NiMet made the prediction in the Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Sunday.

It added partly cloudy were likely over Lafia and Makurdi in the morning with day and night temperature of 28 to 38 degrees Celsius and 11 to 23 degrees Celsius respectively.

The agency predicted cloudy morning with sunny intervals over the southern inland and coastal cities and isolated thunderstorms over Benin, Warri, Obudu, Calabar, Eket, Port-Harcourt and Ijebu-Ode during the afternoon.

It also predicted that the region would have day and night time temperatures of 33 to 35 degrees Celsius and 21 to 25 degrees Celsius respectively over the region.

According to NiMet, northern states of Nguru, Katsina, Kano, Sokoto will be under the influence of dust haze conditions with visibility range of two to five kilometres.

“Other parts of the region will experience dust haze conditions with visibility above five kilometres with day and night temperatures of 34 to 38 degrees Celsius and 13 to 22 degrees Celsius respectively.

“Fresh dust have been raised over the source region with the dust in suspension expected to cause further deterioration in visibility to some parts of the north like Kano and Katsina,” NiMet predicted.