More than 30,000 PG&E customers in Northern California remain without power
More than 30,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers remained without power early Monday after the utility cut electricity across parts of Northern California to reduce wildfire risk during a dry, windy weather event.
PG&E's outage center showed 30,939 customers affected by 633 current outages as of 9:15 a.m., a total that appeared to include both planned public safety power shutoffs and unplanned outages.
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That was down from 46,664 customers affected by 549 outages Sunday afternoon, when shutoffs and other outages were spreading across the Bay Area and beyond.
The utility kept a PSPS shutoff requirement in place Monday for parts of 15 counties: Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Glenn, Lake, Merced, Napa, San Benito, San Joaquin, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tehama and Yolo.
PG&E said the shutoffs were required because of high winds and dry conditions.
In the Bay Area, large outages appeared throughout Sunday in Solano, Napa, Marin, Sonoma and Santa Cruz counties, according to outage alerts.
PG&E's weather team said winds peaked Sunday night and would gradually diminish through the day. However, localized gusts of 30 to 40 mph were still possible Monday morning across the Central Valley, Northern Sierra foothills and higher elevations of the Bay Area.
PG&E said meteorologists were monitoring conditions for a weather "all-clear," which would allow crews to begin restoring power where it is safe to do so.
The National Weather Service said elevated fire weather concerns would continue through Monday across interior parts of the Bay Area and the Central Coast due to low humidity and strong gusts.
A wind advisory remained in effect until 11 a.m. Monday for the Santa Cruz Mountains, North Bay interior mountains, eastern Santa Clara hills and East Bay hills.
Forecasters expected north-to-northeast winds of 15 to 30 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph and isolated gusts up to 60 mph in favored ridges, gaps and passes. The winds could make driving difficult, knock down tree limbs and cause additional power outages, the weather service said.
In the Sacramento Valley and Delta, a Red Flag Warning remained in effect through 8 p.m. Monday. The National Weather Service said gusty north winds and very low humidity were creating critical fire weather conditions, particularly along and west of the Interstate 5 corridor.
PG&E urged customers to check the utility's outage map for address-specific information because outage boundaries can shift and county-level shutoff warnings do not mean every customer in those counties will lose power.
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