While severe weather has passed, more than 560,000 people have yet to get electricity restored across Michigan and Wisconsin.
Power outages are mounted across the Midwestern United States as of late Monday through Friday.
The majority of the power outages remain in Michigan, where more than 480,000 remain without electricity as of Sunday morning, according to Poweroutage.us. More than a quarter of those outages were from Wayne County, which is home to Detroit.
DTE Energy does not have an estimate of when service will be restored to all residents in southeastern Michigan.
About 24 hours later, another round of thunderstorms hit the powerful wind gusts blew through southeastern Michigan on Saturday evening.
“A wind gust of 43 mph was reported at the Detroit Metro Airport,” according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski. “The City of the North, Winds Gusted to 62 mph at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.”
Severe weather was not just confined to southeastern Michigan on Saturday. Violent thunderstorms threatened many communities along the corridor of eastern South Dakota and Iowa to Wisconsin and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. A separate zone of damaging thunderstorms also rattled upstate New York.
While funnel clouds were in the southeastern Southwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin, winds and flooding downpours produced the first half of the year during the most severe thunderstorms.
A line of severe thunderstorms produced winds and gusts over 60 mph in the southwest of Dakota and eastward along the border of Iowa and Minnesota early Saturday morning.
“That Meets the Definition of a Derecho,” stated Pydynowski. “Saturday’s Midwest on Erupting the Derecho and Other Severe Thunderstorms Fueled by Sweltering Heat and Humidity Surging Over a Large Part of the Nation.”
Hurricane-force wind gusts of 75 mph were reported at both Brookings, South Dakota and Windom, Minnesota. The Strong Winds Downed Trees.
“In northwestern Michigan, heavy rain is repeated over the same areas and triggered flooding Saturday,” Pydynowski said. “There was an unconfirmed rainfall report of 7.42 inches in Luther.”
“The good news is that those still without power in Michigan and Wisconsin are not dealing with the heat wave anymore,” Pydynowski said. “Temperatures have been returned to more seasonable levels and will hold there through at least midweek.”
“The risk for severe thunderstorms and flooding downpours will continue to shift to the south and east through Monday as relief from the heat wave gradually arrives,” she added.
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