{"id":4988,"date":"2025-06-27T06:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.weatheramerica.com\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:08:37","slug":"weather-virginia-thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/2025\/06\/27\/weather-virginia-thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Virginia: Thousands without power during heat wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4989\" src=\"http:\/\/us.weatheramerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave-860x573.jpg 860w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Weather-Virginia-Thousands-without-power-during-heat-wave-219x146.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Richmond<\/strong>, <strong>Virginia<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>Thousands of homes and businesses across Central Virginia<\/strong> were left <strong>without electricity<\/strong> on <strong>Wednesday, June 25<\/strong>, as an <strong>intense heat wave<\/strong> swept through the region, pushing <strong>heat index values<\/strong> into the <strong>triple digits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the <strong>height of the outages<\/strong>, more than <strong>12,000 customers<\/strong> in the <strong>Greater Richmond Region<\/strong> lost power, according to <strong>Dominion Energy<\/strong>. The <strong>extreme weather conditions<\/strong>, with <strong>feels-like temperatures well above 100\u00b0F (37.7\u00b0C)<\/strong>, placed <strong>significant strain on the power grid<\/strong>, contributing to widespread disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the <strong>morning of Thursday, June 26<\/strong>, service had been <strong>restored to nearly all impacted locations<\/strong>, as indicated on <strong>Dominion Energy\u2019s official platform<\/strong>. The company did not immediately confirm the <strong>exact cause<\/strong> of the outages, though the <strong>high demand<\/strong> during the <strong>heat wave<\/strong> likely played a critical role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond, Virginia \u2014 Thousands of homes and businesses across Central Virginia were left without electricity on Wednesday, June 25, as an intense heat wave swept through the region, pushing heat index values into the triple digits. &nbsp; At the height of the outages, more than 12,000 customers in the Greater Richmond Region lost power, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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