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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"">Moderate
to heavy rainfall sustained moisture surpluses over Guinea-Conakry, Sierra
Leone, Liberia and southwestern Mali, whereas suppressed rainfall prevailed
over many places in the Gulf of Guinea and Central African countries. </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 above-average rainfall over southern
Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, Liberia, portions of South Sudan and western
Ethiopia. In contrast, there is an increased chance for below-average rainfall
over southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, portions of northern
Guinea-Conakry, southwestern Mali 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 30 days the rainfall situation was deficient
across central and southern India, parts of central China, Thailand, Laos,
Cambodia, the Philippines islands, parts of New Guinea and sporadically across
central and southeastern China. Elsewhere, rainfall was at near normal or above
normal levels. For the past 30 days the rainfall situation was deficient across
central and southern India, parts of central China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
the Philippines islands, parts of New Guinea and sporadically across central
and southeastern China. Elsewhere, rainfall was at near normal or above normal
levels.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, monsoon rainfall is generally deficient
across<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>India except along the coastal
western Ghats. Weekly rainfall was also deficient over Malaysia, and parts of
Indonesia.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>According to the India Met.
Dept. (IMD), for the first twenty nine days of June, the monsoon rainfall has
been deficient by 12 % across the country.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS model is predicting more
rainfall over parts of central and northern India, Burma, and Thailand, but
below normal rainfall over the other regions especially along the peninsular
southern India and the coastal western Ghats region.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">North American
Monsoons:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Above-average rainfall has been observed over northwestern
Mexico and southwestern U.S. during the past week, while drier-than-average
conditions continued across central and southern Mexico.</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 (near-average)
rainfall across central Mexico (southwestern U.S.) during the next two weeks.</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 annual summary for the 2015-2016 South American Monsoon
wet season is available on the CPC website at:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/sams_weekly_update/Archive/Annual-Summary/">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/sams_weekly_update/Archive/Annual-Summary/</a></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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