"Understanding climate – its drivers, variabilities, extremes, and trends – is essential for facilitating better risks and resources management, and development of planning initiatives. Historical climate data, which is a record of past climate, can reinforce short term, medium term, and long term preparedness. Historical climate data, along with other variables, provides a range of utility, viz: o identification of climate’s location specific seasonality, variations and trends, and climate correlation to other relevant variables (e.g. rainfall and/or temperature and crop growth, crop yield and/or crop damage; rainfall and/or temperature and insect infestation; rainfall and/or temperature and disease outbreak; rainfalland/or temperature and drought; rainfall and flooding; temperature and/or rainfall and energy generation and consumption; rainfall and temperature and reservoir operation; and wind speed and wind energy generation, etc.), for guiding effective planning and decision making in various sectors, pricing premiums and identification of incentive packages to clients in insurance industry, and better analysis and presentation of reports by media o validation of community experiences, for fostering national, sub national and local stakeholders’ understanding of climate risks and strengthening design of interventions for resilience o development and updating of location specific hazard and/or risk maps, for guiding disaster risk reduction decisions o refining weather/climate forecasting models o providing reference for analysis of forecast of various timescales, and generation of advisories for risks and resources management o providing reference against which to compare current climate, and a baseline for anticipating potential future scenarios The key focus of this analysis is to provide evidence to/support community climate related experiences and perceptions, in key townships in Myanmar’s Central Dry, coastal and hilly zones; and develop inferences vis à vis opportunities and risks offered by location specific climate variabilities, extremes, and trends. 1.2. Objectives While providing opportunities for various uses of analysis outputs, this study is undertaken to provide evidence to/support community experiences and perceptions on climate variabilities, extremes and observable trends in select priority areas in different climate zones, in Table 1, for evolving better understanding of past, current and potential future climate opportunities and risks..."