More than 1500 homes without power after wild winds across Adelaide on Monday

Adelaide’s windy weather has subsided, but the effects are still lingering with almost 30 power outages across the city affecting more than 1500 homes.

More than 1500 homes remain without power after Adelaide was lashed by wild weather, blacking out more than 50,000 properties.

Strong gully winds up to 85km/h swept through the city’s eastern and southern suburbs, causing widespread damage and power outages on Monday morning.

The SES has responded to more than 400 incidents since about 4.45am Monday and 10 schools and child care centres were closed across Adelaide due to outages.

An Education Department spokeswoman said power had been returned to all 10 schools on Monday.

At about 6am Tuesday, 27 power outages were affecting about 1600 homes across Adelaide, while the SES were responding to five reports of downed trees.

Extra crews were mobilised from SA Power Networks depots in Mount Barker and Victor Harbor to help with extra call-outs, while volunteers manned downed power lines.

The clean-up continues today.

Large trees came down at a Hazelwood Park home after wild winds swept through Adelaide on Monday. Picture: Dean Martin

SA Power Networks spokesman Paul Roberts said more than 51,000 properties were affected by outages on Monday.

Mr Roberts said it was a “fantastic effort” by crews to restore power to as many homes as possible and thanked people for their patience.

Mr Roberts said repairs to power infrastructure would continue for weeks.

“There will be residual work that needs to be done,” Mr Roberts said.

“We’ve had giant trees coming down on power lines.

“We’ve still got to get to those jobs.

“We’ll be going back over several weeks to sites to make repairs.”

Mr Roberts said customers would be updated via SMS.

According to the Food Safety Information Council, food can remain safe to eat for two hours if stored in a refrigerator after a power outage.

The council’s website says food stored at more than 5C for four hours or more should be thrown out.

It also says after two hours without power, food should be stored in a freezer or esky with ice bricks.

Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Simon Timcke said gusts had reached 63km/h at Minlaton, while gusts of up to 50km/h were recorded at West Terrace and Adelaide Airport.

“If there are a couple of storms around, there could be a bit of gustiness with that,” Mr Timcke said.

“(There’s) a possibility of some gusty winds with storms today (Tuesday).

“We’ll still see a little bit of gustiness this evening and tomorrow but not as strong as we saw yesterday (Monday).”