Over 2,000 Pike County customers of Duke Energy were without power at mid-afternoon Friday after a thunderstorm barreled through the northern half of the Tri-State.

High winds, heavy rain and even some hail fell across the county.   Power at most homes and businesses was back on within about an hour.

Strong high pressure will lead to very cold temperatures Friday night into Saturday morning.

Lows are expected to drop into the mid to upper 30s with patchy frost possible from 2am until about 8am.

Most outdoor plants will be fine, but you may want to cover tropical or cold sensitive plants such as tomato plants just to be safe.

Milder weather returns for the weekend.

Tuesday marked the 4th consecutive day of record high temperatures. We will likely break another record on Wednesday to extend the streak to 5 days in a row of hottest-ever temperatures. This will tie the 5-day streak from August 15-19 set in 1936, the hottest year on record. If we set another record on Thursday, we will have the longest string of records since 1898. By the way, the hottest temperature ever recorded in March was 87 degrees on March 24, 1929.