<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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<br>
<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">Weekly
rainfall totals exceeded 100mm over portions of southern Nigeria and western
Cameroon, whereas suppressed rainfall prevailed across many places in the
Central and East Africa.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Week-1
outlooks call for an increased chance for below-average rainfall over portions
of Ghana, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Chad, CAR, western South Sudan,
southeastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, and western Tanzania. In contrast, there is
an increased chance for above-average rainfall over southern Ethiopia and the
neighboring areas of southeastern South Sudan, northern Kenya and Somalia.<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, the monsoon rainfall was generally at
near to above normal levels everywhere except peninsular southern India, parts
of northern India, central China and Indonesia. For the past 30 days the
rainfall was much below normal over southern India, southwestern China
bordering Burma, parts of Malaysia, and southern Cambodia. Elsewhere, the
rainfall was near or above normal, especially all along coastal China.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, eastern China received above normal
rainfall and northeast monsoon rainfall was deficient over southern India as
well as across the east Asian countries. According to the India Met. Dept.
(IMD), as of today, the rainfall for the whole country was highly deficient by
about -28 % across the country, since the start of the climatalogical North
East winter monsoon (Oct-Dec) over southern India. In the next couple of weeks the NCEP GFS is
predicting below normal rainfall over much of the region particularly southern
India. The model also predicts above normal in central-eastern China along 30N
in the first week.<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 (17 – 23 October 2016), below-average
precipitation was observed over most of the northern half of South America
(north of 26S). Above-average
precipitation was observed over the extreme southern Brazil, Uruguay and
central Argentina.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For 24 – 30 October 2016, below-average precipitation is
predicted over portions of northern South America and eastern Brazil, western
Peru, southern Bolivia and southern Chile. Above-average precipitation is
predicted for southeastern Colombia, western Brazil and eastern-central
Argentina.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></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>
<div cols="72">Meteorologist </div>
<div cols="72">Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS/NOAA </div>
<div cols="72">NCWCP Room 3116</div>
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<div cols="72">College Park, MD 20740 </div>
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