National Weather service

The area's two major utilities reported that 50,000 customers still had no electricity Tuesday morning — down from 70,000 immediately after Monday evening's storm.

The severe weather began moving through the area around sundown and swept across central Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe with lightning, winds of up to 65 mph and up to 1.3 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.

PNG Loop was informed the light rains bring experienced is due to the low pressure or trough in the lower Papua region.

This trough is moving to the east and Port Moresby should expect good weather come Monday.

The light rain is expected to move down to Abau and Milne Bay before it clears out.

Meanwhile weather prediction for week two of the games should be fine says the National Weather office.