Power outages are affecting thousands of customers in Western WA

Crews from the Snohomish County Public Utility District (Snohomish PUD) and Puget Sound Energy (PSE) are working to restore power throughout Western Washington Monday evening. As of 5:25 p.m. Monday, more than 25,000 customers were affected by outages. This number already reached over 50,000 customers on Monday.

According to the Snohomish PUD outage map, 6,825 customers were still without power as of Monday evening, many of them in the northern part of the county. This number steadily decreased throughout the afternoon. As of 4:20 p.m., 12,930 customers were without power. As of 3 p.m. Monday, 19,881 customers were without power. The energy supplier previously said on its website that power had been restored to around 15,500 customers since Monday morning.

As part of its statement late Monday afternoon, Snohomish PUD also reported that 13 line crews and two trees were working to restore power to customers on Camano Island and in the cities of Arlington, Stanwood, Snohomish and Everett.

“Crews will continue to work this evening until power is restored to all customers,” Snohomish PUD added.

The PSE outage map reports 245 separate outages and 17,940 customers were without power in several areas of Western Washington as of 5:10 p.m. As of 4:35 p.m., the number of outages stood at 282 outages and 18,583 customers affected. This afternoon, the utility reported 260 separate outages and 26,002 customers without power.

Additionally, the Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) outage map reports that more than 530 customers were without power as of 5:15 p.m. That number was over 600 as of 4:10 p.m. and over 800 by early Monday afternoon.

It should be noted that Seattle City Light is not reporting any major outages at this time, according to its outage map. KIRO 7 reported early Monday afternoon that more than 1,000 customers in Seattle were temporarily without power.

Weather was the cause of the power outages in Washington

The National Weather Service Seattle reported in a thread on X-Sunday that “a strong weather system will bring s.”External winds will increase across the region early Monday morning.”

This proved to be the case as strong winds pounded the area during the day on Monday.

KIRO 7 Chief Meteorologist Morgan Palmer reported Monday afternoon that significant wind gusts were being experienced across the state.

“Today's winds were in line with the forecast and high wind warning so far, with gusts exceeding 60 mph in Oak Harbor and Forks and some gusts exceeding 50 mph in Bellingham, Sequim, Port Angeles and Tacoma Narrows,” Palmer said in a report emailed to KIRO Newsradio.

Aaron Swaney, a spokesman for Snohomish PUD, told the Daily Herald in Everett that the storm met the forecast.

Palmer continued in his report: “The High Wind Warning has been reduced to include only Island County and eastern Clallam County from near Port Angeles east to Port Townsend, ending at 4 a.m. (Tuesday).

This remains a developing story. Check back for updates.

Steve Coogan is the managing editor of MyNorthwest. You can read more of his stories here. Keep following Steve Xor send him an email here.