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FORECAST WESTERN AFRICA
The monsoon marches north, then back
The region
One mechanism runs this whole region and everyone in it plans around it: the West African monsoon, which drags the rain belt from the Guinea coast to the southern Sahara between April and August and pulls it back by October. How far north it gets, and how long it stays, is the difference between a harvest and a drought for four hundred million people.
Countries and territories
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Units
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Official sources
RSMC LA RÉUNION — TROPICAL
RSMC La Réunion — Tropical Cyclone Centre
Names and warns on every tropical cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean
ACMAD — AFRICAN CENTRE OF
ACMAD — African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development
The continental centre, in Niamey — seasonal outlooks for all of Africa
ICPAC — IGAD CLIMATE PREDI
ICPAC — IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre
The Greater Horn of Africa: eleven countries, and the seasonal forecast they plant against