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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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normal"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Weekly
rainfall surpluses exceeded 100mm over local areas in southern Malawi, and
northern Mozambique.</span></p>
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"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
southeastern Angola, western Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and northeastern
South Africa. In contrast, there is an increased chance for below-average
rainfall over southwestern Angola, northwestern Namibia, much of Malawi,
northern Mozambique, portions of southern Tanzania, and northern Madagascar.</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 amounts were generally at near
normal levels across India (seasonal rainfall is almost nonexistent here),
large parts of China, was a mixed pattern across the southern and east Asia
monsoon region, the Philippines and over Indonesia.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, coastal southeastern China had
received excessively above normal rainfall, while Papua New Guinea and northern
and central Australia had generally received below normal rainfall, except
sporadically there were some above normal spots. For the past 30 days the
rainfall situation was dire over Australia, particularly northern Australia and
was deficient even over southeastern China, where it had rained abundantly
earlier. However, western parts of maritime Indonesia has received above normal
rainfall.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, rainfall over the entire region has
generally been below normal. In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is
predicting above normal rainfall over Pakistan and vicinity and over southeast
Asia in the first week, and a mixed pattern in the second week.</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">Long-term rainfall deficits continue over most of the Amazon
Basin and Central Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (29 February-6 March 2016),
below-average precipitation was observed over the northwestern and eastern
Amazon Basin, and portions of central and Northeast Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average precipitation was observed over
northern Bolivia and neighboring western Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For 7-13 March 2016, above-average precipitation is
predicted for northern, western and portions of southeastern Brazil.
Below-average precipitation is indicated for Colombia, Ecuador, eastern Brazil,
Uruguay and central Argentina.</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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