Northwest India hotter, drier over seven decades, southern India wetter: Study

Northwest India has become hotter and drier over the past seven decades, with the dry zone extending eastwards into Uttar Pradesh, while much of southern India has become wetter, a study by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, has found. The researchers warned that the shift could
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- Science
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- Weather & monsoon
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- Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh
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- The Tribune India
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- aksheev thakur
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- Saturday, 24 October 2026, 9:28 am IST
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