*The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority urges airline operators, pilots, and other aviation industry stakeholders to exercise caution over hazardous weather in dry season

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In view of the observed dust haze propagated into the country from the source region, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has advised airline operators, pilots and other aviation stakeholders to exercise caution over hazardous weather in dry season.

The information was contained in the Nigerian Meteorological Agency’s (NiMET) release on weather alerting the public to the possibility of deterioration in visibility as a result of observed dust haze propagated into the country from the source region.

NiMET had stated in the release: “Winds over 10m and 925hPha are favorable for Dust-Haze propagations into the Northern parts of the country.

“Stations in the source region, Niger (Goure, Zinder, Maine-Soroa, Diffa, N-Guigmi and 61091 and horizontal visibility between 800m and 6000m.

“These sources from Chad are expected to report poor horizontal visibility in the next 24 hrs, based on available models.鈥�

The aviation sector regulatory agency also noted due to strong winds, the dust in suspension is expected to propagate to some states in the northern part of Nigeria.

It further said that development would further reduce horizontal visibility, especially over Katsina, Kano, Nguru, Jigawa, Potiskum and Maiduguri in the next 24 hours.

NCAA also said that the information was intended to alert pilots to the nature of weather associated with dry season in Nigeria ranging from light/moderate to severe dust haze, and sometimes early morning fog which could sometimes reduce the horizontal visibility to below the aerodrome operating minimal.

The agency urged members of the public to take necessary precaution during this time in the planning of their trips to avoid encountering unnecessary flight delays within the country’s aviation space.