Final numbers in Delaware County from the windstorm [update] - The Delaware County Daily Times
Power outages ramping up Wednesday night in Delaware County
PECO said Thursday morning that a total of 11,300 Delaware County customers lost electric service from the time the wind started kicking up on Wednesday afternoon to 6 a.m. Thursday during the windstorm caused by a cold front pushing through the region.
That cold front swept through and cleared out skies by dawn Thursday. The outage number was down to 600 by 6 a.m. Thursday, with restoration to all expected later Thursday, PECO said.
Some of the power numbers might be attributed to a crash Wednesday night about 8 in Upper Darby on Township Line Road. It was not clear how many might have been due to the crash, which involved a utility pole and closed a section of the road. Further details were not yet available.
The top wind gust recorded at Philadelphia International Airport was 48 mph in the midnight report from the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey. A late afternoon report will show a peak wind gust for the rest of the overnight, but preliminarily the data looks like the 48 mph was not exceeded.
The rainfall recorded at the airport was a meager 0.11 inch. Most other spots in the county recorded a good deal more.
The temperature plunged at the airport with the north wind from 63 degrees at 4 p.m. Wednesday to 34 degrees at 4 a.m. Thursday. The 63-degree high was well off the date record of 67 degrees from 2017.
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