Abuja — Following the current circumstances of flight delays and cancellation, the Nigerian Meteorological Company (NiMet) mentioned the hazy climate will reduce and flight operations will normalise from at the moment, April 1, 2021.
In a press release by NiMet’s normal supervisor, public relations, Muntari Yusuf Ibrahim, the company mentioned, “The current mud haze being skilled throughout the north and central areas of the nation resurfaced on Thursday March 25, 2021 as anticipated by the Central Forecast Workplace (CFO) of the company in its climate outlook issued on Monday twenty second of March, 2021.
“The mud occasion is because of the passage of the midlatitude wave which helped in strengthening the floor stress over the Sahara Desert area.”
NiMet additional mentioned, “This exercise resulted within the strengthening and intensification of the Saharan excessive stress cell, which progressively pushed down the Inter-Tropical Discontinuity ,ITD, from a latitudinal place of 10.8 levels north on Wednesday twenty fourth to 7.8 levels north on Tuesday March 30, 2021.
“The mud state of affairs is predicted to persist until April 1, 2021when the Saharan excessive stress belt is projected to weaken and horizontal visibilities ought to enhance to between 1-3 kilometers over the acute north.
“Following this, the area is then anticipated to expertise sunny and barely hazy situations over the northern cities, whereas cloudiness to the south and components of the central area.”