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Storm Will Unleash 'Extreme Weather' Christmas Eve Night: Here's Latest
Santa Claus and his reindeer are going to be in for a rough ride this Christmas Eve.
A powerful storm system will sweep through the region, bringing downpours, potential flooding, and strong to damaging winds starting around nightfall on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, and lasting into Christmas Day morning, Friday, Dec. 25.
The storm will unleash “extreme weather" in the region, said AccuWeather Chief On-Air Meteorologist Bernie Rayno, who added, “Make sure you’re ready for that."
For areas where there are High Wind and Storm warnings, flood watches, and wind advisories in eff…
Storm Knocks Out Power To Thousands, Brings Down Trees, Power Lines In Fairfield County
Thousands are without power in Fairfield County as storms rolled through the region, bringing whipping winds of more than 70 mph that toppled tree limbs and downed power lines.
As of just before 1:30 p.m. on Monday, April 13, 29,787 of Eversource’s 1,279,556 customers were without power, while the United Illuminating Company was reporting 27 outages impacting 783 of its 337,094 Connecticut customers.
In Fairfield County, the most outages were reported in:
Norwalk (1,248);
Newtown (1,126);
Danbury (590);
Stamford (448);
Stratford (420);
Earlier story - High Wind Warning: Damaging Gusts Up…
Here's Where The Most Power Outages Are In Fairfield County
Tens of thousands of Connecticut residents remain in the dark after a Nor’easter rocked the region, bringing whipping winds, rain and downing trees and power lines in the area.
As of 9:35 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, 39,655 of Eversource’s 1,276,791 customers were reporting outages, while 2,356 of United Illuminating’s 335,465 customers were still left in the dark.
A complete list of outages can be found here and here.
Related story: High Wind Warning: Gusts Up To 65 MPH Could Cause More Power Outages
Trumbull has the most outages in Fairfield County with 876 just before 110…
