Updated: Thursday, 03 January, 2013 at 03:50 UTC
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Even as severe coldwave and foggy conditions led to drop in minimum temperatures to almost freezing level at several places in the state on Wednesday the chill claimed 15 more lives during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll this winter to 107. In the city, however, the day temperature rose to 20 degrees. The minimum temperature was five degrees. According to police, four people died in Muzaffarnagar due to cold, three in Mathura, two each in Agra, Bulandshahr, Etah and one each in Barabanki and Mirzapur. Muzaffarnagar was coldest in the state with 0.6 degrees celsius minimum temperature followed by Bareilly with 0.9 degrees celsius, Aligarh 1.2 degrees celsius, Najiabad 1.4 degrees celsius, Meerut 1.8 degrees celsius, Agra 2.4 degrees celsius and Moradabad 2.5 degrees celsius. Thick dense fog also led to drastic drop in maximum temperature during the day. Aligarh recorded maximum temperature 9.0 degrees celsius, which was 11 degrees below normal. The west UP were colder than central and east. While minimum temperatures in west UP dropped by 3-7 degrees below normal, maximum temperatures were 4-11 degrees below normal. In central and east UP, both maximum and minimum temperatures were 1-5 degrees below normal.
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