{"id":81481,"date":"2026-01-12T05:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81481"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:46:41","slug":"nimet-forecasts-dust-haze-cloudiness-isolated-thunderstorms-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/12\/nimet-forecasts-dust-haze-cloudiness-isolated-thunderstorms-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"NiMet Forecasts Dust Haze, Cloudiness, Isolated Thunderstorms Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has forecast widespread dust haze, cloudiness and isolated thunderstorms across parts of the country from Sunday to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In its weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja, NiMet said persistent dusty atmospheric conditions will affect the northern and central regions, with possible implications for health, transportation and aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The agency predicted moderate dust haze over the northern region on Monday and Tuesday, noting that the condition may intensify later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The central region is expected to experience thick to moderate dust haze throughout the period, while inland southern cities will record moderate dust haze.<\/p>\n<p>NiMet added that coastal areas will have sunny skies with patches of clouds, with chances of isolated thunderstorms and light rainfall over parts of Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers states later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has forecast widespread dust haze, cloudiness and isolated thunderstorms across parts of the country from Sunday to Tuesday. In its weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja, NiMet said persistent dusty atmospheric conditions will affect the northern and central regions, with possible implications for health, transportation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81481","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=81481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81483,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81481\/revisions\/81483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}