Strong winds overnight led to thousands of power outages Thursday morning across the Lehigh Valley region.

The National Weather Service reports wind gusts peaked at 53 mph about 10 p.m. at Lehigh Valley International Airport outside Allentown.

As of 8 a.m., PPL Electric Utilities reported 4,886 outages across Bucks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe and Northampton counties, with Lehigh and Monroe counties hardest-hit at nearly 1,500 and more than 1,800 outages each, respectively.

FirstEnergy Corp.’s Met-Ed reported 947 outages in Bucks County, 1,049 in Monroe and 1,487 in Northampton.

Across the Delaware River, FirstEnergy’s JCP&L reported 1,129 outages in Hunterdon County and 2,289 in Warren County.

Combined, those outages across the seven counties affected nearly 12,000 customers. S

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