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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 the Gulf of Guinea and Southeastern
Africa countries, whereas suppressed rainfall prevailed over southern Gabon,
southern Congo-Brazzaville and Angola.</span></p>
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<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 portions
of southern Gabon, southern Congo-Brazzaville, southwestern DRC, and
northwestern Angola. In contrast, there is an increased chance for
above-average rainfall over portions of southeastern DRC, eastern Zambia,
northern Malawi, much of Tanzania, and portions of northern Mozambique.</span></p>
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"Times New Roman""> </span></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, but a<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For the past 30 days the
rainfall situation was generally deficient over the whole region, particularly
over northwestern Australia. The exception is over northern Queensland, over<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>southwestern 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 conditions
existed over southwestern Indonesia, southeastern China, and southwestern
Australia. In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is predicting
slightly above normal rainfall conditions over parts of northeast India,
Bangladesh, western Indonesia some parts of Australia including northern
Queensland.
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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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>over central Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (21-28<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>March 2016), below-average precipitation was
observed over<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the eastern Amazon
Basin,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>most of Northeast Brazil, and
central Argentina.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average
precipitation was observed over northern Bolivia, Paraguay and southern Brazil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>28 March -3 April
2016, below-average precipitation is predicted for most of central and
Northeast Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average
precipitation is predicted for most of the Amazon Basin, northern Peru and
eastern Ecuador.</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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