Power outages impact thousands of Southeast Michigan residents as windy conditions return

Thousands of Southeast Michigan residents were dealing with power outages as wind speeds picked up on Sunday night, two days after gusts of over 70 mph swept through the region.

As of Monday at 12:30 p.m., 9,238 residents throughout the area were without service, according to DTE Energy's outage map, including 1,027 in Lake Orion, 605 in Southfield and 413 in Garden City. 

At 12:19 a.m. Monday, the wind speed was 24 mph in Detroit and Howell, and 23 mph in Monroe. A wind advisory is in effect for Southeast Michigan for all of Monday.

A line of showers and thunderstorms is expected to cross the Lower Peninsula of Michigan early Monday. The main threat during the storms is straight-line wind gusts in excess of 60 mph.

Tens of thousands of Southeast Michigan residents didn't have power on Friday night after high winds, which caused a gas station awning in Sterling Heights, Michigan, to collapse.

State officials said Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer activated the State Emergency Operations Center on Sunday morning due to "the threat of significant weather impacts" across the state.