India has reported its hottest and driest August since national records began more than a century ago, the latest in a string of records broken worldwide as climate change intensifies.

August falls in the middle of India's annual monsoon, a season that usually brings up to 80 percent of the country's yearly rainfall

https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2023/09/949930/india-sees-hottest-driest-august-records-began

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