More than 100,000 people and businesses remain without power Thursday as wildfires continue to rage across Southern California. As of about 1:16 p.m. ET, nearly 108,000 outages had been reported, according to the USA TODAY power outage tracker.

A damaging Santa Ana wind event was peaking early Wednesday and was expected to stay strong through early afternoon.

Santa Ana winds expected early next week, meteorologists say. “We had a little bit of a decrease in wind last night, which was good news, but we are starting to see that increasing wind we’re expecting today and into tonight,