Heat Advisory In Effect

DETROIT (WWJ) - The heat is on in Southeast Michigan. A Heat Advisory will be in effect Tuesday afternoon with a high expected of 90 degrees.

While the heat is on, the electricity won't be for thousands of homes and businesses still without power following stormy weather over the weekend. By the numbers, the worst of it remains around Battle Creek, where residents and businesses may not be able to flip the switch until sometime Thursday. They're among the 42,000 customers still off the grid from Monroe County, all the way over to the St. Joseph County shoreline of Lake Michigan, just as temperatures on Tuesday will be in the 90s.

Nearly 300 linemen have been on the job since this past weekend restoring power with the help of crews out of Indiana and Ohio.

DTE Energy reports about 5,000 outages remain, mostly in the Howell-Brighton area of Livingston County. 1,600 more in Ingham County; the others scattered throughout.

National Weather Service officials, by the way, confirmed there were three funnel clouds that touched down near Perry, Three Rivers and Coldwater on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service says more severe storms could be rolling through SE Michigan.  Click here for details.

Click here for the updated weather forecast.