Wisconsin to see heat, storms July 25 and 26, with hot week to come
Highs in the 90s July 25–27, peak heat Sunday to Monday; heat index may reach 100. Storms and variable rain may start Saturday night.
More than 71,000 Milwaukee area We Energies customers, and more than 82,000 utility customers statewide, are without power Monday, July 27.
As of about 2:15 p.m., 71,232 utility customers did not have power, according to We Energies’ real-time online outage map. The majority of those customers, about 38,000 of them, are based in Milwaukee and Appleton.
A significant portion of the outages are not weather related.
Monday morning, around 18,000 customers in Milwaukee area lost power due to a malfunctioning piece of equipment at one of the company’s substations, Director of Media Relations for WEC Energy Group Brendan Conway told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He said crew members are working on two outages within the station and hope to restore power in the affected areas by 3 p.m.
The rest of the outages come as severe storms moved through the state Monday, bringing strong winds, hail and at least one confirmed tornado.
Apart from We energies, more than 10,500 Alliant and Wisconsin Public Service customers combined in the state were without power.
