<div dir="ltr"><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>HIGHLIGHTS:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>African Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:12pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rainfall
surpluses exceeded 100mm over portions of Guinea and Sierra Leone.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Week-1
outlooks call for an increased chance for above-average rainfall over much of
the Gulf of Guinea and portions of central Africa countries.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Asian-Australian
Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the past 90 days rainfall amounts are showing an overall
mixed pattern over the monsoon region with slightly deficient conditions over
parts of central western India, particularly the state of Gujarat, and central
eastern India, southern peninsular India, parts of central China, Koreas, parts
of Japan and Papua New Guinea, but above normal elsewhere particularly the
Indonesian archipelago and the Philippines. For the past 30 days the rainfall
situation is overall a dry pattern over southern peninsular India, north
central India, and central eastern China, and the Koreas. Elsewhere, rainfall
was at generally at near normal or above normal levels.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, monsoon rainfall was generally deficient
across much of the region. According to the India Met. Dept. (IMD), as of
today, for the 2016 monsoon season so far, since the 1st of June, the monsoon
rainfall continues to stay slightly deficient
by about -5 % across the country, as the summer monsoon slowly begins to
recede from continental India. In the
next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS is also predicting the same gradual receding
of the summer monsoon slowly across India from northwest to southeast.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>North American
Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Near-average rainfall has been observed over northwestern
Mexico and southwestern U.S. during the past week. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rainfall accumulations over the past 30 days were slightly above-average
for northern Mexico and below-average for southern Mexico.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NCEP/GFS Forecasts call for near-average precipitation for Arizona/New
Mexico during 19 September – 02 October, 2016.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>South American
Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Long-term rainfall deficits are present over Brazilian
Plateau and southern Brazil.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (12-18 September 2016), below-average
precipitation was observed over Venezuela, northwestern Brazil and southern
Brazil. Above-average precipitation was
observed over portions of Colombia, eastern Ecuador and southern Amazon Basin.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For 19-25 September2016, below-average precipitation is
predicted over Venezuela, northern and southern Brazil, eastern Argentina and
southern Chile. Above-average precipitation is predicted over central Colombia,
western-central Peru and southern Bolivia.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
*For questions or comments, please contact: <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<a href="mailto:Endalkachew.Bekele@noaa.gov">Endalkachew.Bekele@noaa.gov</a> (for the African monsoons)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Muthuvel.Chelliah@noaa.gov">Muthuvel.Chelliah@noaa.gov</a>
(for Asian-Australian monsoons)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Wei.Shi@noaa.gov">Wei.Shi@noaa.gov</a>
(for American monsoons and for general issues about the CPC Global Monsoons
products)<span></span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div cols="72"><strong>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- </strong></div>
<div cols="72">Wei Shi, Ph.D </div>
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