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<p class="MsoNormal">The weekly PowerPoint presentations summarizing the recent
variability of the global monsoon systems have been updated on the CPC Global
Monsoons website: <br>
<a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Global-Monsoon.shtml">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Global-Monsoon.shtml</a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">HIGHLIGHTS:</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">African Monsoons (AFMS.ppt):</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Above-average
rainfall was observed over many places in West Africa, whereas suppressed
rainfall continued to prevail over Northeast Ethiopia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Week-1
outlooks call for an increased chance for above-average rainfall over eastern
Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, central and southern
Mali, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, southern Niger, northwestern Nigeria, and
southwestern Ethiopia. In contrast, there is an increased chance for below-average
rainfall over portions of northern DRC and eastern Ethiopia.</span></p>
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normal"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Asian-Australian Monsoons
(AAMS.ppt):</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the past 90 days rainfall pattern has been mixed, with
above normal rainfall eastern India/Burma and eastern parts of China and below
normal elsewhere. For the past 30 days, rainfall was considerably below normal
everywhere except along north central and northeastern India, parts of Burma
and to a small extent along east coast of China. The disparity with above
normal rainfall in the north and below normal rainfall pattern in the south
India continues to exist. According to the India Met. Dept. (IMD), the SW
summer monsoon rainfall over India as whole since the 1st of June, as of today
August 3rd, is now 6 % below normal.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the
rainfall amounts over much of India and central and eastern China were below
normal. In the next couple of weeks, the NCEP GFS model is predicting generally
below normal rainfall everywhere except over parts of central India and eastern
China.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">North American
Monsoons (NAMS.ppt):</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Near-average rainfall has been observed over southwest US
while most of Mexico experienced drier-than-average condition during the past
week. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rainfall accumulations over the past 30 days were slightly
above-average across the northwestern Mexico and southwestern US, and
below-average over southern and eastern Mexico.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NCEP/GFS Forecasts call for below-average rainfall across
southwestern US and northwestern Mexico during the next two weeks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">South American
Monsoons (SAMS.ppt):</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The South American Monsoon System 2014-2015 wet season has
ended. The next weekly update will be prepared in September 2015. The summary
of the 2014-2015 wet season can be found on the following webpage:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/American_Monsoons.shtml">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/American_Monsoons.shtml</a></p>
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*For questions or comments, please contact: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<a href="mailto:Endalkachew.Bekele@noaa.gov">Endalkachew.Bekele@noaa.gov</a> (for the African monsoons)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Muthuvel.Chelliah@noaa.gov">Muthuvel.Chelliah@noaa.gov</a> (for Asian-Australian monsoons)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Vernon.Kousky@noaa.gov">Vernon.Kousky@noaa.gov</a>
(for South American monsoons)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Wei.Shi@noaa.gov">Wei.Shi@noaa.gov</a>
(for North American monsoon update and for general issues about the CPC Global
Monsoons products)</p>
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