At least 900 electrical customers lost power on the North Olympic Peninsula on Wednesday, and all but 17 had power restored by 4:30 p.m.
Wind gusts from an incoming storm system were blamed for the outages, most of which were caused by trees or branches being blown into power lines.
The largest outage was on Diamond Point, where 758 customers lost power Wednesday morning because of a tree in a power line, according to the Clallam County Public Utility District.
All customers had power restored by 12:10 p.m., according to the PUD website.
Jefferson County Public Utility District reported nearly 200 customers without power at the peak of the outages Wednesday.
By 4:30 p.m., only 17 remained without power because of an underground repair that took longer to fix, according to the PUD website. These were in the Quilcene area, where 37 were reported without power at 8:30 a.m.
The largest outage of the seven reported Wednesday morning in East Jefferson County was 116 customers at Beckett Point.
Wind gusts reached 47 mph east of Sequim Bay, 34 mph in Port Townsend, 53 mph at Point Hudson and 64 mph on Port Townsend Bay, said meteorologist Mary Butwin with the National Weather Service in Seattle.
She said that winds would calm down overnight but that the rain would continue through today, clearing somewhat on Friday.
However, a new weather system is expected to roll in Saturday and will produce rain until Monday or Tuesday, she said.
