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The 17-degree reading was the lowest at the airport since Feb. 7.
A few hours after the mercury fell to 17 on Saturday morning, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network was conducting a "polar bear plunge."
This was an immersion in the Potomac, in swim gear, at the National Harbor development in Prince George's County.
Sponsors billed the plunge as an effort intended to call attention to climate change. One of the event's slogans was "Keep Winter Cold!"
Cold weather on Potomac gives activists right platform
Seeded on Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:28 PM EST
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