Thousands of residents throughout the region were still without power in the wake of Thursday’s fierce thunderstorms.

As of 10 a.m., 322 customers in Carbon County, 1,502 in Monroe County, 250 in Schuylkill County, 835 in Lehigh County, and 464 in Northampton County remained without power, according to an outage map as reported on PPL Electric Utilities’ Outage Map.

Unfortunately, it appears as if we aren’t out of the woods yet, noted Brandon Buckingham, a meteorologist with AccuWeather, said.

Buckingham said that a very slow-moving front made its way out of the Midwest into the Northeast that resulted in very hot and humid conditions that led up to the storm.

“The atmosphere kind of became unstable as we worked our way into the afternoon hours, producing widespread damaging wind gusts and torrential rainfall,” Buckingham said. “A second storm produced some very frequent lightning south of Lehighton (which) picked up additional rounds of rain before things finally cleared out in the 1 to 2 a.m. hour when things kind of came to an end.”

Buckingham noted Thursday’s storm was “more like June or July like conditions rather than the first week of September, and provided plenty of fuel for those thunderstorms to work their way through.”

What’s more, the weather pattern could struggle to clear out of the Northeast and may linger the next couple of days.

“We may see the risk for similar events to happen today or tomorrow,” he said. “I think the thunderstorm threat for today is later in the afternoon, evening commute time into the evening hours; some areas could receive similar risk.”

In fact, Buckingham said we could find ourselves faced with that same sort of “risk and repeat pattern.”

He said Saturday figures to start off with largely dry conditions, and by the afternoon hours, we’ll have to keep an eye on the radar for potential downpours and gusty winds that could potentially hamper cleanup efforts.

Buckingham said that on Sunday, there is still the potential for heavy rainfall.

“Always have a way to receive (storm) watches and warnings, or any alerts on your phone or TV,” he said. “You want to know where to go if inclement weather is moving in quickly.”