Why India Doesn't Warm as One Country — Reading the District Climate Record, 1951–2025
A forecast only means something against a baseline. Seventy-five years of district records show 751 of 755 districts warmer than in 1951 — but the fastest region heats almost five times faster than the slowest, and a warming hole sits over the Indo-Gangetic Plain. What district climatology contains, why it makes a forecast interpretable, how VayuMet builds it, and where the record thins out.