Xcel Energy announced that power restoration in Colorado's Front Range could extend into Monday following a windstorm that caused deliberate and accidental outages for over 155,000 customers. The company had initiated a Public Safety Power Shutdown affecting 55,000 customers to reduce wildfire risk, with additional outages caused by windstorm damage. Crews were deployed to visually inspect power lines before re-energizing them, with some customers facing a second day without electricity. Other local electric cooperatives were also addressing outages, and a small fire in the foothills prompted the closure of Highway 36, but was contained to two acres.
Thousands of customers in Haleiwa, Kaneohe, Ala Moana, and Kailua are without power due to weather-related issues, with Hawaiian Electric reporting outages in these areas. The outages are attributed to the impact of winds and vegetation blowing into power lines, with around 1,235 customers affected in the Ala Moana area, approximately 4,990 customers in Kaneohe, and around 1,510 customers in Haleiwa. First responders are investigating, and Hawaiian Electric assures that the outages are not related to the rolling outages experienced the previous week, with crews working to repair the issues.
Around 17,000 National Grid customers in northern New York, mainly in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties, are still without power, with restoration estimated to take another full day. Outages in Jefferson County have decreased to around 11,500, while power is gradually returning in Lewis County. In St. Lawrence County, about 4,800 customers remain affected. National Grid has provided a restoration time of 11:30 p.m. for the entire region, the first estimate since the storm.
Nearly 15,000 Entergy Mississippi customers, including more than 7,600 in Hinds County, are without power again after Sunday night's storms knocked out power to 25,000 customers. Entergy Mississippi had reported on Friday that power had been restored to all customers, some of whom spent several days without power. The outages were reported in Jackson, Clinton, Madison, Vicksburg, and Rankin County. Temperatures will rapidly rise to dangerous levels on Monday, leading to a heat advisory until 8 p.m.
