Millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France lost power on Monday following a "severe disruption" in the European electrical system, the Spanish prime minister said. The cause of the disruption is still unknown,

Millions across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France were thrown into chaos Monday after a massive power outage — blamed on a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” by some officials— crippled transportation networks,

That conclusion has been supported by the operator of Spain’s national grid, Red Eléctrica, which has located where outages began on Monday. Two separate incidents of power outages led to instability in the grid leading to a “breakdown in interconnections with France,” leaving the Iberian grid isolated.