The urban legend is, the weather reports hide the actual upper temperatures (replacing them with lower temps) because the true numbers would drive more farmers to suicide...

At least the fact that the heat/dryness lead to suicide is true, although I can't verify if they would give up after hearing the weather predictions or after their crops failed:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=india+hot+weather+farmer+suicides&...

Well this was a morbid comment...