power back on after this weekend's outage.

PG&E said in a statement Tuesday that power had been restored to more than 556,400 customers who had been affected by the Oct. 26 shut-offs, just more than half we had been affected. Restoration will continue in stages depending on inspections and any repairs needed, the company said.

More than 970,000 customers lost power this weekend. You can view outage details on PG&E’s outage map.

Meanwhile, the utility confirmed that it would again shut-off power to up to 605,000 customers — around 1.5 million people — in portions of 29 counties as winds pick up again Tuesday. The new outages mean many people won't have power restored from this weekend's shutoffs before the new round begins today.

Here's when and where PG&E expects to shut off power Tuesday:

• 5 A.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Butte, Plumas, Tehama, Trinity, and Shasta
• 9 A.M. Tuesday, Oct 29El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, and Yuba
• 4 P.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne
• 7 A.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Humboldt (Southern), Mendocino, and Sonoma
• 7 A.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Lake, Napa, Solano and Yolo
• 9 P.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Humboldt (Northern) and Siskiyou
• 11 P.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Marin, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Mateo
• 11 P.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Alameda, Contra Costa

9 P.M. Tuesday, Oct 29Kern

Oct. 29 PG&E Shutoff Areas

But while strong winds from the weekend have calmed, the National Weather Service forecasts strong winds to return Tuesday into Wednesday.

Mike Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento, says north winds aren't unusual this time of year, but it's better if there's a little precipitation first.

"Unfortunately we haven't had that rain yet so that's leaving things really dry," Smith said. "North winds this time of year, if you're going to get them, this is sort of the time of year you get them. You just hope you have a little bit of rain first and that's something we haven't really had yet."

PG&E Chief Meteorologist Scott Strenfel says compared to the last few statewide weather systems bringing high fire danger, this one will have a much bigger impact on Southern California.

"From what I've seen, and from what the National Weather Service down in Southern California has been communicating, this does look like the strongest Santa Ana wind event of the season with some gusts potentially of 70-80 miles an hour," Strenfel said.

Paradise — the site of last year’s devastating Camp Fire — is also one of the communities that’s been hardest hit by PG&E’s power shutoffs this fall.

Nicki Jones at Nic’s Deli in downtown Paradise says it’s the sixth blackout day in six weeks. She’s been running the store on a backup generator. She isn’t how much it’s costing her, but she’s determined to stay open.

“Our normal business hours are 11 a.m. to 9p.m.," she said. "But when the power is out we open at 7 a.m. and serve coffee and breakfast items, mostly as a service to the community.”

The private utility company says it’s a fire prevention measure. But residents have questioned whether it’s worth the financial losses and all-around inconvenience of repeated shutoffs.

She says the outages are a necessary inconvenience.

“I don’t think anybody likes’em, but I’d rather have a power outage than more of our town burn down,” Jones said.

PG&E is under severe financial pressure after its equipment was blamed for a series of destructive wildfires during the past three years. Its stock dropped 24 percent Monday to close at $3.80 and was down more than 50 percent since Thursday.

The recent blackouts have prompted backlash from customers and state and local elected officials.

U.S. Rep. Josh Harder, a Democrat from Modesto, said he plans to introduce legislation that would raise PG&E's taxes if it pays bonuses to executives while engaging in blackouts.

State Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents a district stretching from Marin to Del Norte, told KQED this weekend there's been a lack of investment and mismanagement by PG&E on their electrical system and a lack of oversight by the state's Public Utilities Commission.

"I think PG&E's power shutoffs have been a debacle. They lack the basic fundamentals to successfully execute a large and complex outage."

Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the state may not have the power to force PG&E to pay its customers for losses sustained from blackouts.

"That may not be legally required of PG&E," Newsom told CapRadio Sunday. "That doesn't mean they shouldn't do it. And so there's two kinds of authority. There's formal authority and there's moral authority. We will try to use both to make PG&E do the right thing.

The California Health and Human Services has established an emergency hotline to help those who are medically vulnerable and help health facilities find resources during the shutoffs. The hotline is (833) 284-3473.

CapRadio's Kacey Sycamore and the Associated Press contributed to this report