The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted partly cloudy to cloudy weather conditions over the Central States of the country on Thursday morning.

NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Wednesday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range of 32 to 41 and 20 to 31 degrees Celsius respectively.

It added that there were prospects of isolated thunderstorms over Jos, Abuja, Makurdi, Mambilla Plateau and Lokoja in the afternoon and evening hours.

The agency predicted that the southern States would experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with possibilities of isolated thunderstorms expected over Warri and Asaba in the morning hours.

It also predicted isolated thunderstorms over Akure, Ibadan, Ado Ekiti, Oshogbo, Iseyin, Abakaliki, Awka, Enugu and the coastal cities with day and night temperatures of 29 to 36 and 21 to 27 degrees Celsius respectively.

According to NiMet, Northern States will experience sunny and hazy conditions throughout the forecast period with day and night temperatures in the range of 38 to 42 and 20 to 28 degrees Celsius respectively.

“Sunny and hazy conditions are expected over the north, while increased cloudiness is expected to prevail over the central down to the coastal cities.

“There are possibilities of isolated thunderstorms over some parts of the central and southern cities within the next 24 hours,” NiMet predicted. (NAN)