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.

After Xcel Energy worked to restore power to a majority of customers who lost electricity during Sunday night's severe weather across, Monday night's storms caused another spike in outages.

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