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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">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" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Global-Monsoon.shtml</a>
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<b>HIGHLIGHTS:<span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b>African Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span>Weekly-rainfall
surpluses exceeded 100mm over parts of Cote d’Ivoire, southern Ghana,
southeastern Nigeria and northern Congo-Brazzaville.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span>Week-1
outlooks call for an increased chance for above-average rainfall over portions
of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, southern Mali,
parts of Liberia, Cote d&#39;Ivoire, Burkina Faso, southwestern Niger, Togo, Benin,
Nigeria, western Cameroon, eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and, Eritrea. In
contrast, there is an increased chance for below-average rainfall over northern
Congo-Brazzaville, northern DRC, southern CAR, southwestern South Sudan and
western Uganda.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b>Asian-Australian
Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Not available for this week. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b>North American
Monsoons:<span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Below-average rainfall has been observed over northwestern
Mexico during the past week, while central Mexico experienced slightly
wetter-than-average conditions. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Rainfall accumulations over the past 30 days were
above-average for much of southern Mexico and portions of central Mexico. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">NCEP/GFS Forecasts call for near-average precipitation for
southwestern U. S. for the next two weeks.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">*For questions or comments, please contact: <span></span></p>

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<a href="mailto:Endalkachew.Bekele@noaa.gov">Endalkachew.Bekele@noaa.gov</a> (for the African monsoons)<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><a href="mailto:Muthuvel.Chelliah@noaa.gov" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">Muthuvel.Chelliah@noaa.gov</a>
<span> </span>(for Asian-Australian monsoons)<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><a href="mailto:Wei.Shi@noaa.gov" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">Wei.Shi@noaa.gov</a> 
(for American monsoons and for general issues about the CPC Global Monsoons
products)<span></span></p>





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<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>
<div cols="72">5830 University Research Court    </div>
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