As of 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, 377,538 people are without power in Washington, according to poweroutage.com. There are 72,739 people without power in Pierce County. Kent, Auburn, and Lake Tapps areas are seeing the majority of those outages, with the cause attributed to equipment failure, as reported by Puget Sound Energy.

Powerful wind gusts knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers across Washington and Oregon early Wednesday, as the latest atmospheric river intensified over the flood-devastated Pacific Northwest.

Strong winds on Tuesday knocked out power for thousands of customers across the Seattle area and surrounding regions, according to utility outage trackers.As of

Portland General Electric, Pacific Power and Clark Public Utilities all reported tens of thousands without power Wednesday morning.

High winds could lead to power outages across the state, and as of 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 5,481 people are without power in Washington, according to poweroutage.com. There are 2,721 people without power in Pierce County.

The National Weather Service in Seattle issued a High Wind Warning for large portions of Western Washington, with forecasters warning of damaging winds, falling trees and possible power outages.

Puget Sound Energy and other Washington utilities reported power outages Wednesday as strong wind downed trees and power lines, causing road closures.

A map, produced by PowerOutage—which collects power outage data from over 1,000 utility companies across the world, every 10 minutes—has identified that, at the time of publishing, over half a million people have been left without power in the U.S. as winter weather strikes, downing trees, snapping power lines, and causing widespread outages.

Strong winds in western Washington are toppling trees and triggering power outages, leaving hundreds of thousands of people in the dark.

BC Hydro power outages remain across British Columbia’s South Coast following a powerful windstorm and severe rain damaged electrical infrastructure earlier this week. Over 90,000 customers lost electricity at the peak,