In a 9 a.m. update, Xcel Energy said that 97% of outages across Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota have been restored.

Powerful winds from back-to-back storms on Sunday night and Monday night knocked out the lights and air conditioning inside about 300,000 homes across the Midwest.

At about 5 p.m. Wednesday, Xcel Energy had restored power to about 99% of the customers impacted, which totaled around 300,000 in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.