Frigid temperatures hit D.C. area
UPDATED 2:30 a.m. Wednesday:
Winds are letting up and temperatures on Wednesday will climb up to 30 in some areas.
Loudoun County has announced it will open on time.
See the full list of closings on WTOP.com for continuous updates.
Read the full forecast in the WTOP Weather Center.
TUESDAY RECAP:
Record-low
temperatures were set at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport
where the low before sunrise reached down to 3 degrees, and at Dulles
Airport, which reached 1 degree. In both places, the previous record had been set in 1988.Meanwhile, Reagan National Airport bottomed out at 6, just missing the Jan. 7 record of 5 degrees for the city, set in 1884. In D.C., temperatures were the coldest since 1996, struggling through the teens with a high of 19 as of 3 p.m. and wind-chill factors right around zero after being in the negative teens in the morning.
