{"id":108082,"date":"2026-02-07T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:32:07","slug":"strong-chilling-winds-leave-thousands-without-power-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108082\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong chilling winds leave thousands without power | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. \u2013 Hundreds of FirstEnergy and PPL customers are without power Saturday, as wind gusts of up to 55 mph take down trees and electrical lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our region is under an Extreme Cold Warning until 12 p.m. on Sunday, and a Wind Advisory that is active until midnight on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winds will operate 20-30 mph, gusting 40-50mph. Wind chills will be well below zero for the entire day.<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 PPL customers are without power in Lehigh County as of 2:47 p.m. on Saturday, while more than 1,600 customers are without power in Monroe County, according to the outage map<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News for the latest updates on the web and on air.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. \u2013 Hundreds of FirstEnergy and PPL customers are without power Saturday, as wind gusts of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,805,434,7445,7446],"class_list":["post-108082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-berks","tag-lehighvalley","tag-northampton-county","tag-poconos-coal","tag-southeastern-pa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}