India, June 27 -- LUCKNOW Lucknow sweated through a blistering maximum temperature of 42.4degC, a staggering 6.3 degrees above normal, becoming the fifth-hottest city in the country on Friday. Residents found little relief even after sundown, with minimum nighttime temperatures hovering above the 30degC mark.

Out of the 11 hottest cities in India with temperatures of 42 degrees and above, nine were from UP. Rohtak in Haryana was the hottest at 43.4 degrees. UP's Lakhimpur Kheri (43.2) was the second hottest city, followed by Banda and Agra (43), Kanpur, Fatehgarh and Aligarh (42.2). Barabanki and Prayagraj (42) were the last two cities on the list.

Lucknow recorded a minimum temperature of 30.4 degrees, which was four notches above norm...