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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"">Moderate
to locally heavy rainfall resulted in above-average rainfall over many places
in the Central African region, and portions of Tanzania.</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 below-average rainfall over eastern
South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, eastern Kenya, and southeastern Somalia. In
contrast, there is an increased chance for above-average rainfall over portions
of southern 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 amount 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 large parts of Australia had generally
received below normal rainfall. 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 southwestern Borneo
island, and<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>where the rainfall is at
above normal levels. Rainfall was also above normal over some isolated regions
across eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, northern India and over
southeastern China.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, above normal rainfall conditions appeared
over Bangladesh, northeastern Afghanistan, and southern parts of western
Indonesian islands. In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is
predicting slightly above normal rainfall conditions over southeastern China,
parts of southwestern Indonesia and costal northeastern 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (28 March -3 April 2016),
below-average precipitation was observed over most of Brazil south of 8S,
Bolivia and Paraguay.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average
precipitation was observed over Colombia, Ecuador, northern Peru and portions
of the central and eastern Amazon Basin.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For 4-10 April 2016, below-average precipitation is
predicted for most of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Above-average precipitation is predicted for
Uruguay, northeastern Argentina, southern Colombia, northern Peru and 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><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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