{"id":167071,"date":"2026-03-18T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167071\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:22:35","slug":"wind-brings-down-trees-power-lines-around-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167071\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind brings down trees, power lines around North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Powerful wind gusts reaching up to 55 miles per hour on Monday have brought down trees and power lines around the North Country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning for Jefferson and Lewis counties and a wind advisory for St. Lawrence County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The NWS said sustained wind speed is 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts as strong as 55 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trees and branches fell, with some taking out power lines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scattered power outages have been reported throughout the day on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.ny.nationalgridus.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/outagemap.ny.nationalgridus.com\/\">Click here to see National Grid\u2019s power outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Monday morning\u2019s high winds prompted some North Country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2026\/03\/16\/winds-prompt-schools-delay-some-power-out\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2026\/03\/16\/winds-prompt-schools-delay-some-power-out\/\">schools to delay opening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">7 News will have much more on this story as the afternoon progresses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Powerful wind gusts reaching up to 55 miles per hour on Monday have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43426,68493,9,11,10,49,51,50,68492,11447,3609],"class_list":["post-167071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-down","tag-high-wind","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-power-lines","tag-trees","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}