<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"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Below-average
rainfall was observed over many places in West Africa.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rainfall
was above-average over portions of DRC, Sudan, northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.<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
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, southern Mauritania, portions of Mali and Burkina Faso, western Niger, and
western Ethiopia, Sudan, south Sudan, and Eritrea.<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, below normal rainfall deficits remain
in general over parts of central and peninsular India, east central China,
Koreas, Japan, Papua New Guinea, and large parts of Australia. During same
period, rainfall excess remain over central western and northeastern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and
many southeast Asian countries bordering South China Sea area including large
parts of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. For
the past 30 days, below normal rainfall situation is noted over interior India
in a north-south oriented pattern, east central China and Papua New Guinea.
Elsewhere, the rainfall is mostly above normal to normal.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this past week, the observed rainfall amount has been
notably deficient over large area of north central India, and coastal
southeastern China. The India Met. Dept, (IMD) is reporting that the monsoon,
so far since the beginning of June, is about 4% below the long term mean for
India as a whole. In the next couple of
weeks the NCEP GFS model continues to predict below normal rainfall over most
of central India and extending all the way to southeastern China in the first
week and above normal rainfall over Gujarat and vicinity in the second week.<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"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Slightly below-average rainfall has been observed over
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
near-average for southwestern U.S. and above-average for much of northwestern
Mexico. Meanwhile, much of the central and southern Mexico experienced
drier-than-average conditions. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NCEP/GFS Forecasts call for below-average precipitation for
southern Arizona and above-average precipitation for northwestern Mexico during
21– 27 August 2017.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*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><p class="MsoNormal"><br></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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