Okpuala Ngwa is a town in Isiala-Ngwa North. It serves as the administrative headquarters for the local government. It was the first settlement and headquarters of the

Ngwa people Ngwa people (''Ṅgwà'' ), an Igboid tribe in south eastern part of Nigeria. It's also the largest and most populous ethnic group in Abia state southeastern Nigeria. They occupy an area of about , although some accounts read at least . In 1979, t ...

. The people of Okpuala Ngwa speak the Ngwa dialect of the

Climate

The

rainy Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides water fo ...

season in Okpuala-Ngwa is

humid Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air. Water vapor, the gaseous state of water, is generally invisible to the human eye. Humidity indicates the likelihood for precipitation, dew, or fog to be present. Humidity depen ...

, oppressive, and

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, while the dry season is

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, muggy, and largely gloomy. The average annual temperature ranges from 67 to 87 degrees

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, rarely falling below 60 or rising over 90. Because Okpuala-Ngwa experiences such small seasonal

temperature Temperature is a physical quantity that expresses quantitatively the perceptions of hotness and coldness. Temperature is measured with a thermometer. Thermometers are calibrated in various temperature scales that historically have relied o ...

variations, talking about hot and

cold Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

seasons isn't very helpful.

Clouds

The average

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sky The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from outer space. In the field of astronomy, ...

covered by clouds in Okpuala-Ngwa varies significantly seasonally throughout the year. Around November 24 marks the start of Okpuala-Ngwa's clearer season, which lasts for 2.6 months and ends around February 11. In Okpuala-Ngwa, December is the clearest month of the year, with a 41% average percentage of clear, mostly clear, or partly

overcast Overcast or overcast weather, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization, is the meteorological condition of clouds obscuring at least 95% of the sky. However, the total cloud cover must not be entirely due to obscuring phenomena near t ...

skies. Beginning about February 11 and lasting for 9.4 months, the cloudier period of the year ends around November 24. In Okpuala-Ngwa, April is the month with the most clouds, with the sky being overcast or mostly cloudy 87% of the time.

Precipitation

A day that has at least 0.04

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of liquid or

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-equivalent

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. ...

is considered to be wet. In Okpuala-Ngwa, the likelihood of rainy days varies wildly throughout the year. From March 25 to November 10, the wetter season, which lasts 7.5 months, has a greater than 45% chance of precipitation on any given day. In Okpuala-Ngwa, September has an average of 25.4 days with at least 0.04 inches of precipitation, making it the month with the most wet days. Between November 10 and March 25, or 4.5 months, is the dry season. January has an average of 1.7 days with at least 0.04 inches of precipitation, making it the month with the fewest wet days in Okpuala-Ngwa.https://www.accuweather.com/en/ng/okpala-ngwa/251696/fishing-weather/251696

References

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