Far fewer customers were in the dark at 6 a.m. than there were several hours earlier.
Many of the power problems experienced Monday evening in Warren and Hunterdon counties were much improved Tuesday morning as the worst of the wind hit early.
A wind advisory was in place until midnight in the Lehigh Valley and northwest New Jersey.
The top gust at Lehigh Valley International Airport was 46 mph at 6:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
Other top gusts recorded:
- 58 mph, 8:55 p.m., High Point Monument, Sussex County
- 54 mph, 6:11 p.m., Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport
- 46 mph, 7:30 p.m., Alpha
- 45 mph, 5:40 p.m., Wilson Borough
Dispatchers and state police barracks across the region reported few problems just after 6 a.m. Tuesday as the wind was steady at 5:51 a.m. at 12 mph with a gust of 25.
Gusty winds cut power to thousands
It will remain breezy on Tuesday and the high temperature of 54 likely will feel cooler than that.
At 6 a.m., JCP&L had 80 customers without power in Hunterdon County and 74 in the dark in Warren County, where more than 3,000 customers didn't have power on Monday evening.
Current outages are affecting small clusters of customers and are expected to be resolved between 7 and 11 a.m., parent company First Energy's outage site said.
At that hour, Met-Ed had fewer than five customers without power in Northampton County, but PPL Electric Utilities still had a problem south of Coopersburg with 214 customers out with a restoration time of 1 p.m., according to the Allentown-based utility's outage map.
There were trees reported down in the past 13 hours in Moore, Upper Mount Bethel and Palmer townships as well as in Wilson Borough, according to various alerts. Wires were down in Bethlehem, Lower Saucon and Forks townships as well as Wilson and High Bridge. There was a brush fire in Lower Saucon and a transformer fire in Bushkill Township.
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