Power Outage in Struthers, OH

Thunderstorm Wind. Two large trees downed and power poles snapped in Poland, about a half mile north of the center of town.

March 25, 2023

Winter Storm. An Arctic cold front swept through the area around 4 AM December 23rd. Low pressure along this front tracked over Lake Erie early in the morning on December 23rd and rapidly intensified through the day while slowly lifting northeast across Ontario. With the frontal passage rain changed to snow with temperatures dropping from the upper 30s and lower 40s to sub-zero in about 8 hours. A period of light to moderate snow occurred behind the front early December 23rd before becoming lighter by midday. The period of snow and rapidly falling temperatures led to a flash freeze and icy conditions on area roadways. While the falling snow became lighter through the daytime hours of December 23rd, winds began increasing during the pre-dawn hours and gusted over 35 MPH through the day. A peak wind gust of 51 MPH was clocked at 2:32 PM December 23rd at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. Sporadic tree damage and a few power outages resulted. Wind gusts very gradually subsided into December 24th, though gusts didn���t drop below 30 MPH until that evening. This led to a prolonged period of widespread blowing and drifting snow beginning early in the morning December 23rd and continuing through the afternoon and evening, with some patchy blowing and drifting snow continuing all the way through Christmas Eve. The greatest impact from this storm was to travel due to the flash freeze and extensive blowing and drifting snow, to go along with low visibility. Numerous minor accidents, slide-offs and disabled vehicles were reported throughout the area on December 23rd and 24th. Over a dozen of these accidents resulted in at least minor injury. Wind chills plunged below 0 by 7 AM December 23rd and did not warm back above 0 until the morning of December 26th. A minimum wind chill of -31 degrees was reported at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport at 5:51 PM December 23rd. A number of burst pipes were reported across northern Ohio due to this cold, with temperatures remaining in the single digits until Christmas morning. Weather observers at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport measured 4.3��� of snow with the storm. Trained spotters measured 2.6��� of snow in Austintown and 2.5��� in Canfield.

December 23, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Downburst blew down about 20 trees and 10 power polls in the same direction in Roosevelt Park in Campbell. Time estimated via radar.

July 20, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Power pole snapped along Northeast River Road on the east side of Lake Milton, about 1/4 mile north of Milton Road. Apparent downburst.

June 07, 2021

High Wind. Hitchcock Road closed between Squirrel Hill and Deer Run due to downed tree and power lines in Boardman.

March 26, 2021

McDonald, OH (11:35 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage… https://t.co/L4yaNDeiW0

@grid_events - February 28, 2023 16:45

Foil balloon blamed for hundreds of power outages in Youngstown, Austintown https://t.co/Oo3a2BiKT4

@21NewsEP - February 26, 2023 23:50

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@chelseaWKBN - October 19, 2022 11:32

Thousands of power outages reported in the Valley https://t.co/PSm1pqpSVW

@WKBN - October 19, 2022 10:37

Canfield, OH (3:43 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage e… https://t.co/H5FbTe5I2x

@grid_events - October 08, 2022 07:45