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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"">Suppressed
rainfall prevailed across many places in East Africa, whereas portions of
Southern Africa continued to receive above-average rainfall.</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 below-average rainfall over central
and southern Angola, portions of northern Namibia and western Zambia. In
contrast, there is an increased chance for above-average rainfall over southern
Tanzania, southeastern DRC, eastern Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe, Malawi, central
and northern Mozambique, the Comoros Islands and portions of western
Madagascar.</span></p>
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"Times New Roman""> </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 (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 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 central 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, slightly above normal rainfall continued
over Pakistan, far northern India, eastern China, and over Queensland was also
slightly above normal. In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is
predicting return of slightly above normal rainfall over the whole region,
particularly 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Recent rainfall has reduced long-term rainfall deficits over
central Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (14-20 March 2016), below-average precipitation
was observed over Bolivia, Paraguay, and most of Northeast, central and
southern Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average
precipitation was observed over northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For 21-27 March 2016, above-average precipitation is
predicted for western and southern Brazil, northern Peru, eastern Ecuador,
northern Bolivia and Paraguay. Below-average precipitation is predicted for,
northern and northeastern Brazil, central and northeastern Argentina and
Uruguay.</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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