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From May 21-31, the current Inter-Tropical Front (ITF) shifted northward along most of its length compared with the previous dekad. In the west, the ITF is now at 15.5N, a northward shift from its previous position of 14.9N, placing it 0.4 degrees above the climatological average. In the east, the ITF shifted northward from 13.5N to 13.9N, placing it 0.7 degrees above the long-term average. Figure 1 shows the current position of the ITF (red line) during the third dekad of May and its previous position (purple line) during the second dekad of May. Figures 2 and 3 are time series showing the latitudinal positions of the western and eastern portions of the ITF, respectively, along with their seasonal evolution since April 2026.

Dekad	15W	10W	5W	0	5E	10E	15E	20E	25E	30E	35E
January 1	10.9	10.2	10.7	9.0	6.6	6.1	6.6	6.7	6.5	6.1	5.7
January 2	10.8	8.6	6.4	6.6	9.4	8.6	7.7	7.8	8.3	6.4	4.5
January 3	7.8	6.6	6.5	6.5	7.6	7.2	5.1	8.9	10.6	5.5	3.8
February 1	11.5	10.2	9.3	10.2	9.6	8.9	7.0	7.7	7.7	6.2	6.1
February 2	7.7	7.4	10.7	10.9	10.4	7.5	6.7	9.4	9.2	5.8	5.8
February 3	8.6	7.2	8.6	8.5	7.8	6.5	5.4	9.1	6.1	6.2	7.6
March 1	10.4	10.5	10.6	11.2	10.0	7.0	7.0	5.7	4.1	4.1	6.4
March 2	12.7	11.4	10.7	10.1	9.9	9.5	8.3	8.8	8.9	8.9	9.5
March 3	12.1	12.2	12.6	14.1	11.8	10.8	10.2	10.7	11.0	12.1	12.0
April 1	10.5	12.0	12.7	12.2	11.5	10.8	10.5	12.3	12.7	12.5	14.4
April 2	10.3	11.7	12.7	12.2	12.5	12.0	11.5	12.4	12.8	14.3	12.7
April 3	8.4	10.7	15.5	14.6	13.5	12.2	11.3	12.1	11.1	10.4	11.5
May 1	12.0	15.7	16.7	15.5	14.8	13.3	11.9	10.6	10.2	11.8	13.1
May 2	12.2	14.8	16.2	15.7	14.6	13.3	13.2	12.7	12.8	13.6	15.0
May 3	14.0	15.1	16.0	15.8	15.7	14.9	13.4	12.2	13.1	14.2	16.0