Whitecaps are visible in a pond along Highway 88 south of Centerville Lane.
Power has been restored to all but 226 homes and businesses in Carson Valley by noon.
The outage which at one point was expected to last the entire day, prompted the Douglas County School District to close Scarselli and Meneley elementary schools.
High winds continue to blow in the Valley, but the vast majority of the nearly 7,500 customers without power have been restored, according to NV Energy.
Outages still affect 161 customers in the 89460 ZIP Code that includes the Gardnerville Ranchos and Foothill.
Gardnerville shows eight outages affecting 60 customers and Minden has one outage affecting five customers.
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The number of NV Energy customers without power was up to 7,489 at 9:20 a.m. Monday.
There were 14 different outages, that were almost certainly caused by the wind blowing down trees across Carson Valley, with NVenergy.com reporting 5,284 of those in the 89460 ZIP Code that covers the Gardnerville Ranchos and Foothill.
The Schat's Bakery in Minden was one of the 123 homes and businesses in the county seat without power.
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Wind is the likely cause of a power outage that affected more than 1,000 Douglas County homes and businesses early this morning.
NVEnergy.com reported 1,085 Douglas County customers were without power as a cold front blasted into Western Nevada.
Of those, 1,039 were in the Gardnerville Ranchos ZIP Code, which includes southern Foothill Road, where a 69 mph gust was recorded at Sheridan around 3:30 a.m.
The largest outage was caused by a tree falling on a power line around 3:10 a.m. affecting 887 power company customers.
East Fork firefighters responded to a report of an arcing transformer at 4:36 a.m. No estimate on when power will be restored was available as of 5 a.m.
Deputies closed Waterloo Lane due to a tree down across the road at 5:30 a.m. Firefighters were called to help clear it.
Not long after the outage, the National Weather Service extended a wind advisory another 12 hours from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.
Southwest winds of 20-30 mph are expected to continue through the day, gusting up to 50 mph, with wind-prone areas hitting 65 mph.
Semi trucks and other high-profile vehicles are prohibited on Interstate 580 through Washoe Valley.
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A blustery Mother’s Day prompted the National Weather Service to issue a wind advisory through 5 a.m. Monday.
Gusts in Carson Valley topped out at 61 mph 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Sheridan Acres.
“I recorded a 51 mph gust so far at 3:43 p.m.,” Fredericksburg resident Jeff Garvin said on Sunday. “Small leaves and small branches are being ripped from some of the trees.”
The advisory calls for southwest winds 25-30 mph, gusting to 50 mph, with wind prone areas seeking gusts of up to 65 mph.
Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects,” according to the Weather Service. “Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. Difficult driving conditions are possible for high profile vehicles.”
Winds are supposed to pick up again on Monday morning out of the southeast at 15-25 mph shifting southwest in the afternoon, with gusts of up to 40 mph.
There is a possibility of showers on Monday and Tuesday, with the snow level forecast to drop to 5,100 feet on Tuesday morning.
The front is also bringing cooler temperatures, with the low expected to drop to around freezing early Tuesday morning.
High temperatures on Monday are predicted to hit 62 degrees on Monday and 58 degrees on Tuesday.
Sunny skies and warmer temperatures are forecast to return on Wednesday and last through next weekend.