Residents of Abuja woke up Thursday morning to a cloudy and heavily dark atmosphere following the prediction of annular eclipse in Nigeria.
Though it remains unclear whether other cities experienced the eclipse, DAILY POST captured images of the cloudy atmosphere that remained for almost two hours before the sun could be sighted.
Our reporter observed that the weather changed at exactly 8:00am when it’s believed that the annular eclipse had started and there was a partial obscurity.
Though Abuja residents went about with their normal activities, some said it was a good experience to have seen a cloudy weather as though it was about to rain.
According to one Mr James Okpala, ” I experienced annular eclipse years ago. Then I didn’t take it to be anything. Today, I see that nature is powerful, and with this, I have the need to be nature friendly. This is one powerful message that I got from this experience.”
It would be recalled that the Director, Centre for Atmospheric Research, Anyigba ,Kogi, Prof. Babatunde Rabiu, said on Wednesday that the much expected annular eclipse will be experienced across various cities between 7am to 10am.
Rabiu said Abuja would experience the eclipse between 7:16 a.m and 9:57a.m.
DAILY POST also gathered that some Kano residents reportedly experienced the annular eclipse.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun.
This will make the Sun appear as a very bright ring, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon, thereby causing partial or total darkness on the earth.
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