Update 10:52 p.m.: As of about 10 p.m., Pepco had restored power to more than 36,000 customers who lost power due to the wind storm. There are about 10,300 Pepco customers still without power.

At the height of the outage, about 47,000 customers were without power.

Update 7:23 p.m.: About 37,000 customers remained without power across the region Friday evening, with nearly two thirds of them in Montgomery County, Md. Dominion Virginia power reported about 11,00 customers without service. Pepco reported about 26,000 customers in the dark, including 21,399 in Montgomery County. The utility issued a news release included in its entirety below.

WindStormwork2-25

Update 5:51 p.m.: Nearly 60,000 customers are without power.

Dominion:
NoVa:
25,609

Pepco
District of Columbia 3,476
Montgomery 25,368
Prince George's 4,982

Update 4:10 p.m.: More than 73,000 customers have now lost power across the region.

Dominion:
NoVa: 28,550

Pepco:
District of Columbia 5,385
Montgomery 36,727
Prince George's 2,848

Update 3:17 p.m.: Pepco now reports more than 19,000 outages across Montgomery County. Here are the latest numbers.

Dominion:

NoVa: 14,882

Pepco:

District of Columbia: 3,408
Montgomery: 19,029
Prince George's: 422

Update 2:39 p.m: It seems that nearly all of the power is back up for Rockville's Pepco customers, but the weather has just knocked out power for thousands more in Montgomery County.

Power is now out for 10,912 Montgomery County residents, 1,065 D.C. residents, and 550 Prince George's County residents.

Original: Today's high winds haven't even kicked in yet and we already have reports of thousands of Pepco customers without power, mostly in Montgomery County.

A large chunk of those power outages are concentrated in Rockville, where early this morning large tree limbs fell onto transformer lines and caused a fire, knocking out power for more than 2,000 customers.

Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson says they still need to conduct an investigation to find out what exactly caused those limbs to come down, but he notes that it all happened before high winds were even a factor.

“The ground is saturated and becoming more saturated," he says, saying "soggy soil" may be to blame for the tree becoming lose and dropping major limbs.

But things may get worse later this afternoon, when winds are predicted to reach up to 60 mph. Anderson says Pepco began preparing last night for the possibility of wind-related outages today by keeping their call center staffed 24 hours.

If your power does go out, you will need to call Pepco at 1-877-PEPCO-62 to let them know (nope, they won't know otherwise. And yes, you still need to call if your neighbor does).