Just over 5,000 people were without power in Dallas and Tarrant counties Wednesday morning, but that number had dropped significantly by noon.
Tarrant County, which initially had 2,700 customers without power as of 10 a.m., had dropped to under 400 affected households just two hours later.
Most other counties around North Texas had fewer people without power, per the Oncor outage map. The largest outages in Dallas County were in west Oak Cliff near Dallas College’s Mountain View campus, with about 780 affected customers, and in Old East Dallas near downtown, with about 700 affected customers.
As of noon, the Old East Dallas outages appeared to be resolved, while the west Oak Cliff outages were ongoing. Power was expected to be restored to those customers by 2:30 p.m.
These outages come as North Texas is experiencing the coldest wind chills of the year.
Early Wednesday, the region saw temperatures in the teens and wind chills in the negatives, according to the National Weather Service’s Fort Worth office. Light snow also began falling around 2 a.m. and flurries continued across the region into the midmorning.
Only trace amounts of precipitation were accumulating, per the weather service.
