Following the four-day winter weather event impacting our service area, the majority of our customers have been restored. Our crews continue to safely restore power to the remaining customers impacted this major winter weather system that brought extreme cold, snow and icing across parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
A winter storm continues to impact our service area
A winter storm has arrived and is impacting our service area.
A winter storm will begin impacting our service area starting today.
Even as Entergy employees continue to respond to outages caused by widespread severe thunderstorms, our workers are prepared to respond to another major winter event across our service area.
Entergy team members train for, and have been through, some of the worst disasters to impact the communities we serve. Hurricanes, tornadoes and winter ice storms are often described as “having a mind of their own,” but advanced planning and training makes the overall response as immediate and efficient as possible.
Entergy’s Storm Center has consistently been one of the highest-visited sections of our company’s website. The updated safety and weather-focused site has a new, cleaner look and a more customer-centric layout making it easier to find information and resources.
Communities across Entergy’s service area continue to experience the effects of historic high temperatures combined with extended severe drought conditions. Since the onset of this extraordinary heat wave and lack of rain, we have continually monitored weather conditions and the increased risk of wildfires caused by these highly unusual weather conditions.
National Preparedness Month issponsored every Septemberby the Federal Emergency Management Administration to highlight the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time. As we roll through the busiest part of the hurricane season and encounter a heightened risk of wildfires, we’re reminded how unpredictable Mother Nature can be year-round: Since January, our customers have been impacted by severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, winter storms and record-breaking heat.
With continued high temperatures expected in the coming days across parts of our service area, we ask customers to join us in taking every precaution to remain safe from the extreme heat and follow any local or state orders, like full or partial burn bans.
We are now in the busiest phase of hurricane season, with the weeks of late August into mid-September historically delivering the majority of major storms impacting the United States. Even in the “slowest” of seasons, it only takes a single major named storm to upend the lives of millions of people across our area. We continue to encourage everyone to stay vigilant and have plans in place now to deal with any tropical system that may come our way.
This year, if needed, our mobile command center is ready to assist in restoration efforts should a tropical system hit our area. The response vehicle can operate at or near the most impacted location a disaster area, with satellite-based communications equipment giving our operations personnel a link to the outside world when oftentimes such capabilities have been knocked offline.
Most areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas will see daily high temps near or above 100 degrees through the weekend, with heat indexes predicted to be even higher. The National Weather Service says the combined extreme heat and humidity has also helped fuel near-daily thunderstorms across the south over the last weeks.
Hurricane season starts June 1 with predictions of more than a dozen named storms in the Atlantic Basin.nWe prepare for the worst of what Mother Nature might bring, because our customers live in areas prone to some of the most severe weather in the country. Weather is impacting our region with increased strength and frequency, and recent major storms in our area and along the Gulf Coast remind us of the need for vigilance.