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Climate Change Turned Up India’s Heat. But by How Much?
Punishing temperatures in India and Pakistan climbed over two months, and scientists are now puzzling over a region whose climate dynamics are hard to predict.
A farmer cools off while working at a wheat farm in Punjab on May 1.
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India this year experienced its hottest March in 12 decades of records, and one of its driest. Next came the third-hottest April, after 2010 and 2016. Then it got even hotter.