Nearly 5,000 homes and businesses in parts of Arlington are without power this morning.
The outages are primarily affecting neighborhoods along and north of the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, according to a Dominion outage map. As of just before 9 a.m. Tuesday, the utility company said 4,866 customers were affected in Arlington.
The widespread outage comes on the coldest morning of the year so far, with the temperature around 10 degrees. A Cold Weather Advisory remains in effect.
The outage has also prompted Arlington Public Schools to close Innovation Elementary, H-B Woodlawn and the Shriver Program in the Rosslyn and Courthouse area, according to an alert shared with ARLnow by a reader.
Dominion’s website lists the cause as “pending investigation” and the estimated restoration time as between 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
(As of 2 p.m., the number of local homes and businesses without power was down to 372.)
