{"id":257924,"date":"2026-06-07T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257924\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:46:08","slug":"storms-leave-over-75000-without-electricity-across-tri-state-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257924\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms leave over 75,000 without electricity across Tri-State area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-2279647543.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">(Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol\/Anadolu via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Severe weekend weather moving through the metropolitan region has left tens of thousands of residents in the dark, knocking out electricity across New York City, Long Island, Westchester and northern New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the latest utility reports, New Jersey has taken the brunt of the storm&#8217;s impact.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Jersey Central Power &amp; Light (JCPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/outages-nj.firstenergycorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> the highest number of localized disruptions, with 32,488 customers actively out of power. Meanwhile, PSEG NJ is <a href=\"https:\/\/outagecenter.pseg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">working<\/a> to restore services to another 19,406 affected households.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Closer to the city, Con Edison has <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.coned.com\/external\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> 6,056 outages across the five boroughs, with an additional 5,064 customers impacted in neighboring Westchester County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">To the north and west, Orange and Rockland Utilities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oru.com\/en\/services-and-outages\/report-track-service-issue\/check-outage-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> 4,597 outages.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Out on Long Island, PSEG LI crews are <a href=\"https:\/\/mypowermap.psegliny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">responding to<\/a> a total of 8,837 active power losses.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Emergency management officials across the Tri-State area had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/em\/about\/press-releases\/20260605_PR_NYCEM_Travel-Advisory_Weekend-Severe-Storms.page#:~:text=Ensure%20that%20flashlights%20and%20battery,never%20to%20use%20generators%20indoors.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previously issued travel advisories<\/a> warning of sudden severe thunderstorms capable of producing heavy downpours and strong wind gusts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Con Edison, PSEG Long Island, PSEG New Jersey, Jersey Central Power &amp; Light and Orange and Rockland Utilities.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\/weather-forecast\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Forecast<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol\/Anadolu via Getty Images) NEW YORK &#8211; Severe weekend weather moving through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,12,806,133,4586],"class_list":["post-257924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-weather","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257924","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=257924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}