Power outage in Montgomery County may be weather-related, official says

Update@2:49 p.m.

The massive Montgomery County outage that caused some 10,500 DP&L customers to be without power for nearly an hour Thursday was "potentially weather-related with all the rain," a company spokesperson said.

Sometimes that can be the "catalyst" for the equipment failure that may have caused the outage, which was reported just after 2 p.m., the spokesperson said.

Power is expected to be restored to the remaining 73 DP&L customer within the hour, the officials added.

Update@2:28 p.m.

Power has been restored to all but 73 DP&L customers in Montgomery County.

Update@2:15 p.m.

Power has been restored to more than 2,000 DP&L customers, bringing the number of customers without power to 8,112.

We continue to monitor the outages, and we’re waiting for DP&L officials to tell us what caused the outages.

First report:

The DP&L outage map is currently reporting 10,541 power outages in Montgomery County. We are working to learn more about the cause and specific locations.