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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
total rainfall exceeded 100mm over northern DRC, southwestern Tanzania, local
areas in western Zambia, eastern Botswana and western Zimbabwe.</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 along the Gulf
of Guinea coast, southern Zambia, portions of southeastern Angola and eastern
Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, northern South Africa, southern Malawi, and
central and southern Mozambique. In contrast, there is an increased chance for
below-average rainfall over western Angola, northwestern Namibia, Uganda,
western and southern Kenya, and northern Tanzania.</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 was generally at near
normal levels across India, 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 and western half of Borneo island 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 generally
deficient over the whole region, particularly over Australia. The exception is
the western and southern portions of Borneo island where the rainfall is at above
normal levels.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, rainfall over Pakistan, far northern
India, eastern China, and over Queensland was slightly above normal. In the
next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is predicting above normal rainfall
over Pakistan and vicinity and parts of Indonesia, and heavy rainfall in the
first week over Guangxi and Guangdong provinces in southern China and over western
Queensland in Australia.</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">Recent rainfall has reduced long-term rainfall deficits over
the southern Amazon Basin and Central Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (7-13 March 2016), below-average precipitation
was observed over portions of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>eastern
and southwestern Brazil, eastern Argentina, and southern Bolivia.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average precipitation was observed over
the eastern Amazon Basin and portions of Central Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For 14-20 March 2016, above-average precipitation is
predicted for southern Colombia, and the central and western Amazon Basin.
Below-average precipitation is predicted for Bolivia and Central, Northeast and
Southeast Brazil.</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><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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