“There’s trees down all over the place, taking down some power lines,” said Houghton County Sheriff’s Deputy Phil Helminen. “That’s been pretty much it.”

Keweenaw and northern Houghton counties were under a wind advisory from the National Weather Service through 6 p.m. Gusts of up to 50 mph were common around the Keweenaw Wednesday, with gusts of 66 mph observed at the Houghton County Memorial Airport. Winds of 50 to 60 mph were recorded on Lake Superior.

The winds were thanks to an early fall-like storm coming through the area, said Nick Langlieb, a meteorologist with the NWS in Negaunee.

“The surface low that moved through was something that would be a little more common late in fall, but for this time of year, it was an uncommon event,” he said.

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette A surfer tests the waves along the McLain State Park shoreline Thursday.

At about 12:45 p.m., there were 1,242 Upper Peninsula Power Co. customers (6.2%) without power in Houghton County. The biggest outage proportionally was in Keweenaw County, where 880 customers (32.3%) had no power.

Two customers reported outages in Ontonagon County, and one in Baraga County.

By 3 p.m., those numbers had dropped to 192 in Houghton County, eight in Keweenaw County, and two each in Baraga and Ontonagon County.

Waves of 12 to 15 feet were also forecast for the western shoreline of Lake Superior and the tip of the Keweenaw, with minor lakeshore flooding expected through 5 p.m.

The surface low moved along the northern shoreline of Lake Superior and is now in Ontario, moving to the northeast. Friday will be breezy, but nothing close to the levels seen Thursday, Lanlieb said.

The next chance of precipitation is Sunday, though models are showing less strength than originally anticipated, Langlieb said. There will still be a chance of thunderstorms, with highs around 70.