THE ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF WEATHER ELEMENT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN JOS NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA

This study examined the effect of weather parameter on the physiological comfort of the people of Jos North Local Government Area, Plateau State Nigeria. Meteorological data (Temperature, Rainfall and Humidity was obtained from the Weather station of the Department of Geography, University of Jos between year 2011 to 2015. Five wards out of the fourteen electoral wards was sampled and questionnaire was administered to 400 people at the LGA in other to acquire information on socio demographics, malaria prevalence and the effect of weather on their daily activities. SPSS and Microsoft excel was used to perform the statistical analyses such as correlation in order to examine the relation between weather parameter and other socio-economic activities, T test, trend analyses were also performed. The result of the finding showed that 60% of the respondents attest that Jos North is hot with a temperature of about 36 degrees Celsius as observed from the weather data. The result also showed that there is a positive relationship between weather and business activities and clearly showed that weather is one of the factors that affect business activities. The effect of weather on demographic information showed that the male is more sensitive about the weather than women. The result clearly showed the role of weather in human activities