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Record lows were set in the Washington. D. C., area this weekend for the coldest January 10 in almost a century The thermometer in the other Washington registered 15 degrees on Sunday, the lowest high for that date since 1845 when the temperature climbed only to lb degrees.
Here in Rappahannock County it was even colder. Farly Sunday morning, the temperature in the town of W ashington edged up to zero just about the time that people were rolling out of warm beds. In the iv.. that wind back up into the Blue Ridge foothills, temperatures hung at minus five degrees.
The extreme weather set a new record for power demand in the Allegheny Power System, according to C. Irvin father, southern division manager for Potomac Hdison. The new record of 5.720 megawatts eame at 11 am. Monday, breaking the old record of 5.504 set on January 12. 1 Wl. father said.
Potomac Kdison ex perienced scattered power outages during the cold snap that began Saturday but the power losses were due” to equipment failure or isolated * situations of overloads rather than from increased demand, father said
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