India, Feb. 12 -- The daytime and nighttime temperatures are ranging much higher-than-normal in many regions across India, making it feel like a vanishing spring season, an early onset of the summer season and even heat waves are on the offing.

The higher-than-normal temperature rise is happening despite an ongoing La Nina phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific Ocean which generally causes colder winter and spring seasons in India as it does across many other regions.

The phenomenon is also occurring on the heels of the warmest January month on record in 2025 across the world with a temperature anomaly of 1.75 above the pre industrial (1850-1900) average for the month.

Between February 9 and February 10 there was a sudden rise in day ti...