Almost 10,000 energy outages have been reported in Arizona Wednesday as a winter storm handed by way of the state, considered one of many locations within the U.S. coping with winter climate this week.
The best focus of outages was within the northern a part of the state, the place 6,000 houses and companies in Coconino County have been with out energy, representing greater than 24% of the county’s electrical clients, based on USA TODAY Community’s energy outage database.
The county is dwelling to Flagstaff, which remained beneath a winter storm warning Wednesday.
In Maricopa County, dwelling of Phoenix, over 1,000 outages have been reported, a fraction of the county’s 1.86 million energy clients.
See under for a tracker of energy outages in Arizona.
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With one other winter storm making its means by way of the Western U.S. this week, robust winds and colder-than-usual circumstances began to choose up in Arizona late Tuesday.
In response to the Nationwide Climate Service Phoenix workplace, wind gusts might attain a most of 70 mph in larger elevations. The climate service additionally forecasted round 4-10 inches of snow in elevations above 5,000 toes from Wednesday morning to Thursday morning.
Learn extra protection from The Arizona Republic, a part of the USA TODAY Community.
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