Thousands affected by BC Hydro outages from Sooke to Colwood (UPDATED)

BC Hydro reported multiple outages in Sooke, Metchosin and Colwood Monday afternoon affecting thousands of customers.

With six different outages across the three municipalities at 3:10 p.m., over 4,000 customers were affected.

While the cause of most of the outages was still under investigation as of 3:10 p.m. on Monday, high winds were forecast for the area by Environment Canada, reaching speeds upward of 70 kilometres per hour.

At least one outage was directly caused by a tree falling across wires.

Up to date information on current outages is posted to the BC Hydro website.