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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:</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 portions of Guinea, northern Sierra Leone,
eastern Liberia, southern Cote d’Ivoire and local areas in western Ethiopia,
while suppressed rainfall prevailed across the Lake Victoria region.</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 above-average rainfall throughout
portions of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, northern Nigeria,
northern Cameroon, northern CAR, southern Chad, portions of western Sudan and
western Ethiopia. In contrast, there is an increased chance for below-average
rainfall over portions of Congo and northern DRC.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Asian-Australian
Monsoons:</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the past 90 days rainfall amounts are showing deficits
to various extents over large parts of Australia, central and southwestern<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>India, and large deficits over southeast
Asian countries such as Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, the Philippines
and eastern Papua New Guinea.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However,
northeastern India, Burma, coastal southeastern China and many parts of
Indonesia received<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>above normal
rainfall. For the past 30 days the rainfall situation was deficient over
central India, coastal Western Ghats, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines
islands and parts of New Guinea. However, coastal eastern India, northeast
India, Burma, and parts of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>southeastern
China and Indonesia had received more rainfall.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, monsoon rainfall is generally deficient
across central India, eastern Asian countries, Indonesia, central eastern
China, and Japan. The India Met. Dept.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>has announced the Indian Southwest monsoon has onset over the
southwestern state of Kerala a few days ago.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is predicting below
normal rainfall over central India and many parts of east Asian countries,
coastal southeastern China and above normal rainfall over Nepal, Burma, and
parts of eastern China.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">North American
Monsoons:</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below-average rainfall has been observed over southern
Mexico during the past week.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rainfall accumulations over the past 30 days were
below-average over central and southern Mexico. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NCEP/GFS Forecasts call for above-average rainfall for
southern Mexico during the 13-19 June 2016.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">South American
Monsoons:</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The South American Monsoon System wet season has ended. The
annual summary will be available on the CPC web site beginning 8 June 2016.</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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