Power outages are minimal during the latest snowstorm that’s blanketing New Jersey.

About 3,400 customers are without electricity Friday mostly because of branches taking down wires.

Jersey Central Power & Light says about 1,000 homes and businesses don’t have service. They’re mainly in Newton, Pequannock, Ringwood and Montville.

Atlantic City Electric, which was hammered by a major storm earlier this month, has about 1,800 customers without service.

The state’s largest utility, Public Service Electric & Gas, says there are about 575 scattered outages.

Nearly 5,000 utility customers in New Jersey lost power Thursday.

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