The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) confirmed that heatwave has abated from across the country. Giving a major relief from heatwave, heavy rainfall warning have been issued in Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Vidarbha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana. "Isolated Heavy to Very heavy rainfall likely over East Central and parts of Northwest India during next four days, it said.
The weather office further added that conditions are also becoming favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon over some more parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana during next 2-3 days.
In Mumbai, IMD said that the monsoon season is likely to reach the city on June 24, with the weather department also sounding an yellow alert for next week. "Conditions are favourable for the monsoon to move further towards Raigad, Thane, Mumbai and Palghar. Monsoon is likely to reach Mumbai by June 24," said IMD Mumbai earlier this week. According to reports, the Met department has issued a yellow alert for June 26 to 27. Such an alert indicates that the city and adjoining areas will receive heavy rain at isolated places.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, the weather office has predicted a partly cloudy sky and light rain for today. The maximum and minimum temperatures on Saturday are likely to settle at 38 and 28 degrees Celsius respectively.
In Odisha, as the southwest monsoon has covered the state, IMD issued heavy-rainfall warning for several districts of the state till June 27. “The southwest monsoon has further advanced into remaining parts of Odisha and thus covered the entire Odisha today," IMD said in a bulletin. It forecast heavy rainfall (7-20cm) at one or two places in Cuttack, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj on Saturday. Heavy rain (7-11 cm) is also very likely to occur at one or two places in Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Khordha, Puri, Nayagarh, Angul, Kandhamal, Boudh, Sonepur, Sambalpur, Deogarh and Sundargarh.
In Jharkhand, the weather department has also issued heavy rainfall alert for parts of the state on 25 and 26 June, which might cause damage to standing crops and water-logging in low-lying areas, official said as quoted by PTI.
Check full IMD weather forecast here
Northeast & adjoining East India:
- Heavy to Very Heavy falls very likely over Odisha during 23rd--26th June.
- Heavy rainfall also likely over Assam and Meghalaya on 23rd, 26th and 27th June; Nagaland, Manipur & Mizoram during 23rd-27th June; Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on 23rd and 26th June; Odisha on 27th June and Jharkhand on 25th & 26th June.
Northwest India:
- Light to moderate scattered to fairly widespread rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm and lightning very likely over Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh during 23-27 June and over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi and East Rajasthan during 25th-27th June.
- Heavy to very heavy rainfall very likely over Uttarakhand & Himachal Pradesh during 23rd- 27th June and heavy rainfall over Uttar Pradesh during 24th-26th June; over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and East Rajasthan during 25th-27th June.
Central India:
- Moderate rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning predicted over the region during next 5 days.
-Very heavy rainfall predicted over Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh during 23-27 June, and over Vidarbha during 24-27 June.
- Extremely heavy rainfall very likely over Chhattisgarh on 24th June.
South India
- Moderate rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning very likely over the region during next four days.
-Heavy to very heavy rainfall also likely over Coastal Karnataka during 23-27 June; Coastal Andhra Pradesh during 23-24 June, Telangana during 23 -25 June, and Kerala and Mahe during 25-27 June.
West India:
Light to moderate fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls, thunderstorm and lightning very likely over Konkan and Goa during 23-27th June.
- Light to moderate scattered to fairly widespread rainfall with isolated thunderstorm & lightning very likely over Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada during 24-27th June and over Gujarat Region on 26th and 27th June.
- Heavy rainfall also likely over north Madhya Maharashtra during 25th-27th and over Gujarat Region on 27th June.
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Updated: 24 Jun 2023, 07:18 AM IST
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Covid-19 origin mystery: ‘No direct evidence that it started in…’, says US intelligence report | Mint
“There is no direct evidence found that the Covid-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology," a four-page report by US intelligence agencies said on Friday.
It said the intelligence agencies could not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory. However, the agencies have not been to discover the Covid-19 pandemic origin, according to a report published by Reuters.
"The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, as both (natural and lab) hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting," the report said.
The agencies said that while "extensive work" had been conducted on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute (WIV), they had not found evidence of a specific incident that could have caused the outbreak.
"We continue to have no indication that the WIV's pre-pandemic research holdings included SARSCoV-2 or a close progenitor, nor any direct evidence that a specific research-related incident occurred involving WIV personnel before the pandemic that could have caused the COVID pandemic," the report added.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 before fanning out around the world and killing nearly 7 million people.
Earlier in April, another report suggested that illegally traded wild animals in the Chinese city had triggered the coronavirus pandemic. But researchers have published the first-ever peer-reviewed analysis of biological evidence taken from the Wuhan wet market.
“The analysis confirms that swabs from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market — which closed in January 2020 and has long been linked to the start of the pandemic — contained genetic material from wild animals and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2," the paper said.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization reiterated calls for China to share information, insisting that all hypotheses would continue to remain on the table until this happened.
Data from the early days of the COVID pandemic was briefly uploaded by Chinese scientists to an international database last month. It included genetic sequences found in more than 1,000 environmental and animal samples taken in January 2020 at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan.
(With Reuters inputs)
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