[shijithpk]

I'm a data journalist and I live in a village in Kerala, a state in southern India.

We're getting into summer here, so I wanted to see how hot villages in Kerala get in general, and how the temperatures now compare to 10 or so years ago.

Made use of satellite data for my analysis, mainly land surface temperature data from MODIS.

Was thinking of using Google Earth Engine for this story, but decided to go with Planetary Computer since it's Python-centric and I'm more familiar with that language. (GEE is more javascript-oriented.)

Pretty sure earth/geo/environment science guys won't be happy with my methodology, but hopefully there's enough of a logic to it for the story to be acceptable as a basic analysis.

You can see my code at the github repo (https://github.com/shijithpk/hottest-panchayats-kerala)

Have any suggestions or feedback, let me know, thanks!