{"id":64213,"date":"2025-04-14T13:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64213"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:18:55","slug":"brace-for-heat-storms-nimet-warns-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/14\/brace-for-heat-storms-nimet-warns-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace for Heat, Storms, NiMet Warns Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has forecast a nationwide spell of sunshine mixed with thunderstorms from Monday through Wednesday, urging citizens to prepare for volatile weather.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Sunday in Abuja, NiMet predicted slight dust haze across the northern region, with thunderstorms likely in Adamawa, Taraba, and Kaduna states.<\/p>\n<p>The North Central zone is expected to see mostly sunny skies, though isolated thunderstorms may sweep through Plateau, the Federal Capital Territory, Niger, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi, and Benue.<\/p>\n<p>For the southern parts of the country, cloudy conditions will prevail, accompanied by thunderstorms especially in Cross River and Akwa Ibom, both in the morning and later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>This weather pattern is expected to persist into midweek, with further thunderstorms anticipated in parts of Sokoto, Kebbi, and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>NiMet also raised concerns over high temperatures across the country and advised the public to stay hydrated, seek cool environments, and exercise caution during periods of strong winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has forecast a nationwide spell of sunshine mixed with thunderstorms from Monday through Wednesday, urging citizens to prepare for volatile weather. In a statement issued Sunday in Abuja, NiMet predicted slight dust haze across the northern region, with thunderstorms likely in Adamawa, Taraba, and Kaduna states. The North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64215,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64213\/revisions\/64215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}