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“Not all area records are in yet,” Dr. Michaels said, “but looking at what we do have, this past December is the coldest on record, one degree colder than the December of 1917, the previous record holder.”

With frozen water pipes, dead car batteries and busy fuel suppliers as witness to the frigid December cold in Rappahannock County, records here agree with Charlottesville’s statistics.

Local weather watcher Dennis Wingfield said his records show December 1989 temperatures far below normal, with the highest average temperature in December registering just 32.6 degrees. It was a

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