<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
was below-average over much of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, southern DRC, Angola,
northern Zambia, and many places in East Africa. In contrast, above-average
rainfall was observed over portions of the Gulf of Guinea and Southern Africa
countries.<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 portions
of Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, northern Angola, southern Botswana, and parts of
South Africa. In contrast, there is an increased chance for below-average
rainfall over southern and eastern DRC, eastern Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda,
eastern Ethiopia and portions Kenya.<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/central India and over
central and northeastern Australia. For the past 30 days rainfall deficits are found over western
Australia, Japan and Papa New Guinea. Elsewhere, the rainfall amounts are at
near or above normal levels, particularly it is above over eastern coastal
Australia, northeastern India, Bangladesh, and parts of southeastern China.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week,, positive rainfall anomalies are noted
over Northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as over eastern China.
However, strong negative departures are noted over southeastern China, Malaysia
and Borneo island. In the next couple of
weeks the NCEP GFS model is predicting generally below normal rainfall over
much of the region in the first week, but normal to above normal rainfall in
the second week except over northern Australia.<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 (03-09 Apr 2017), below-average
precipitation was observed over much of the northern South America as well as
central and the extreme southern Brazil.
Above-average precipitation was observed over eastern Argentina and
portions of northern and southern Brazil.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For 10 - 16 Apr 2017, below-average precipitation is
predicted over much of northern and central Brazil, western Peru, northeastern
Argentina and southern Chile.
Above-average precipitation is predicted for much of the northwestern
South America.<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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