Harsh storms that swept through Monday night knocked out power to thousands of people in the region.

According to information provided by PPL, as of this morning, there were 106 customers without power in Carbon County; 11,236 in Lehigh County, 2,208 in Monroe County, 5,518 in Northampton County, and 45 in Schuylkill County.

Tyler Roys, a senior meteorologist, with AccuWeather said Monday’s weather was atypical for this time of year.

“We (usually) don’t see it this late in summer time; we might see it in early June,” Roys said. “In terms of all the weather components in the atmosphere, it’s very rare to see what we saw yesterday in terms of the players that occurred in August.”

Roys added it was “the rarest of the rare.”

He said the two main factors were the heat dome from Arizona to Texas, as well as some upper level atmosphere features that typically stay near the US Canadian border “that kind of traveled further south into the Great Lakes and into the Northeast and that allowed the storms to kind of fire up.”

Roys said motorists traveling south toward the Pennsylvania/Maryland border into the DC area will probably encounter the biggest travel dysfunctions.

“That’s where most of the wind damage was reported,” he said. “There was a report northeast of Jim Thorpe near the Pocono Whitewater Rafting, somewhere along (Route) 903.”

Roys said workers will be cleaning up any trees that are on the roads today and Wednesday, as well as any power lines that came down.

Roys said that as we go into the rest of the week, Wednesday is expected to be warmer than today, less humid, and should lend itself to windows being open tonight, Wednesday, and Wednesday night.

However, he said we do have another cold front that is going to come through Thursday that will lead to more clouds than sun, with showers and thunderstorms, and added it’s going to be more humid, “sort of like the humidity roller coaster.”

Roys said Friday is going to be less humid, with just some clouds and potential thunderstorms around the region.

Saturday is expected to be dry, though Roys didn’t rule out a thunderstorm or two.

Roys said Sunday is going to be largely on the dry side, with some humidity still around and temperatures in the mid-80s.