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Power Restored in Sierra Madre, But Another Major Wind Event Expected Wednesday

There were roughly 3,000 Southern California Edison customers in Sierra Madre who experienced power outages as a result of Monday's strong winds.

Power has been restored to thousands of customers in Sierra Madre who experienced outages as a result of Monday's fierce winds, but forecasters say that another major wind event is expected to occur Wednesday.

As of Tuesday morning, the only area in Los Angeles County where a wind advisory was still in effect was the county's portion of the San Gabriel Mountains, where the wind was blowing at speeds of between 30 and 40 miles per hour and gusting at 55 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

The wind advisory was scheduled to expire at 11 a.m., along with a high surf advisory. But another major wind event was developing.

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"High pressure will build into Nevada this evening and will create a northeast wind event for L.A. County on Wednesday," according to a NWS advisory.

Local utilities, meanwhile, reported getting a handle on the thousands of outages that occurred around the region amid Monday's fierce winds.

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According to Southern California Edison spokesman David Song, there were some 3,000 Sierra Madre-based customers affected by Monday's weather conditions. The utility company said around 1,000 customers were still without power as of this morning, 830 of them around Riverside County. 

The utlity company's online outage map did not list Sierra Madre as having been affected by weather conditions late Monday night, but some locals reached out to Patch and said that simply was not the case. 

"We live in sierra madre, and we lost our power for several hours....it was back on after 1130pm....according to friends on facebook, it was through out sierra madre," one Patch reader posted.

Song confirmed there were in fact several weather-related outages in the Sierra Madre area on Monday, but most of the service had been restored.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said this morning that it has restored power to all the 13,000 customers affected by Monday's outages. 

Amid sunny skies, the NWS forecast highs today of 62 on Mount Wilson; 68 in Palmdale and Lancaster; 70 in Avalon and at LAX; 72 in Saugus; 75 in Pasadena and San Gabriel; 76 in Anaheim, Burbank and downtown L.A.; and 77 in Woodland Hills and Long Beach.

Temperatures were expected to rise by roughly five degrees amid Wednesday's Santa Ana winds before falling back to today's levels on Thursday.

- City News Service and MarieSam Sanchez


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