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Analysis: are heatwaves arriving earlier every year?

Thirty years of fictional station data point to a two-week shift.

Published 26 October 2026 at 10:59 pm IST · 1 min read

Key points

Thirty years of fictional station data point to a two-week shift.
What is driving it.
What could change it.

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What the numbers say

The trend is clear over three years of data, though a single month can swing either way.

Our science desk has asked for the full documents and will publish them once they are shared.

The bigger picture

Several forces are at work at once, and none of them explains the whole story on its own.

Also read: Glacier in the fictional Neelgiri range retreated 22 metres this year

This is a demo story: every name, place, organisation and figure in it is fictional.

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