<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
total rainfall surpluses exceeded 100mm over portions of Central Mozambique.<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
northwestern Angola, parts of southern Tanzania, Malawi, northern Mozambique
and northern Madagascar. In contrast, there is an increased chance for
below-average rainfall over central and eastern Angola, portions of southern
DRC, northeastern Namibia and northern Botswana, and western and central
Zambia.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></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, slight to heavy rainfall deficits
remain over parts of central and
northeastern Australia, as well as over Papua New Guinea. However, rainfall
situation is generally better in western Australia, particularly in the
northern region. Elsewhere, the rainfall situation is at or near normal levels.
In the longer 180days term, severe deficits from last year remain over southern
India and over central and eastern Australia. For the past 30 days rainfall deficits are found over western
Australia and over Japan. Elsewhere, the rainfall amounts are at near or above
normal levels. These pre monsoon months are the hottest in India, with little
or no rain. In the last several years, even in the month of March, temperatures
in the high 90’s and 100’s are very
common across India. It may be recalled that during last year, in 2016, in
April and May, many hundreds died of excessive heat in central India, before
the onset of SW summer monsoon. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week,
the rainfall was slightly above normal over southeastern China and
southeastern Australia. Elsewhere it is a mixed pattern. In the next couple of
weeks the NCEP GFS model is predicting below normal rainfall in the deep
southern peninsular India, northern Australia, and during the second week in
southeastern China. Above normal rainfall is predicted over northeastern Indian
states and Burma.<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 the Amazon
Basin and central Brazil.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the last 7 days (20 - 26 Mar 2017), below-average
precipitation was observed over much of central and southern Brazil, eastern
Peru, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina and southern Chile. Above-average precipitation was observed over
portions of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and a small portion of northwestern
Brazil.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For 27 Mar – 02 Apr 2017, below-average precipitation is
predicted over much of northern and southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Uruguay,
northeastern Argentina as well as northern and southern Chile. Above-average precipitation is predicted for
large portions of Argentina, southern Bolivia, central-eastern Brazil, northern
Peru and much of Colombia.<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>
<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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