Pittsburgh's Severe Storms Knock Out Power To Thousands

PITTSBURGH, PA — Severe weather rolled through Western Pennsylvania Thursday night, knocking out power to thousands of homes.

As of Friday morning, however, power to most of those residences had been restored. Duquesne Light was reporting about 450 outages as of early Friday morning. The communities with the most outages were White Oak, with 189, and McKeesport with 105.

The passage of a cold front with last night's storms is expected to bring calmer weather to the region for the weekend. Today, expect a high in the upper 70s.

Saturday and Sunday highs are expected to be in the low- to mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service.

The next chance for showers and storms does not arrive until Monday.