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Hope you were buckled up. If the weather in Hampton Roads felt like a roller coaster this week, you weren’t imagining it. Between Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12, temperatures at Norfolk International Airport swung dramatically from record warmth to winterlike chill in less than 24 hours. Between 3 PM Wednesday and 3 PM Thursday, temperatures plunged from 87°F to 36°F...an incredible 51-degree difference.

Here in Hampton Roads, the chill was so persistent that waterways I’ve lived near since 2007 actually started to freeze over — rivers, creeks, and little side channels that, in a typical winter, might get a skim of ice once in a blue moon ended up solid enough to stop onlookers in their tracks.