🇳🇬Nigeria Climate : An overview

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CLIMATE IMPACT IN NIGERIA


Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Weather can change hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly. A region's weather pattern usually tracked for at least 30 years isconsidered its climate.


Source: Semantic scholar

Nigeria is characterised by three distinct climate zones which are: a tropical monsoon climate in the south, a tropical savanna climate for most of the central regions, and a sahelian hot and semi arid climate in the north of the country. This leads to a gradient of declining precipitation amounts from South to North.

The tropical monsoon climate is intermediate between the tropical rainforest climate and tropical savanna climate. The tropical monsoon climate has a very small temperature range. The temperature ranges are almost constant throughout the year. For instance, Warri, which is in the southern part of Nigeria records a maximum of 28°C(82.4°F) for it's hottest month, while it's lowest temperature is 28°C(78.8°F) in it's coldest month.


The tropical savanna climate has alternating dry and wet seasons which covers most of western to central Nigeria. Temperatures are above 28°C(64°F) throughout the year. Kwara State is within a region described as tropical climate and is characterised by double rainfall maxima and has tropical wet and dry climate. Double rainfall maxima is characterised by two high rainfall peaks with a short dry season and a longer dry season falling between and after each peaks. The two seasons last for about six months. Kwara State is a summer rainfall area with an annual rainfall range of 1000mm to 1500mm.


Source: weather and climate 

The hot semi-arid climate is mostly found within the sahel which is in the northern part of Nigeria. The total annual rainfall is low, because it rains for about four months in a year. The rest of the year is hot and dry with temperatures as high as 40°C(104°F). In Kano, the wet season is muggy and mostly cloudy. The dry season is partly cloudy, and it is hot year round. The temperature typically varies from 53°F to 102°F and is rarely below 48°F or above 106.


Writer for wildest: Olatunji Aminat Abisola 



Edited by Amir A. Sadiq

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