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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…
Nor'easter Will Bring Soaking Rainfall, Strong Winds That Could Cause Power Outages
Click here for an updated story: Wind Advisory: Gusts Up To 50 MPH Could Blow Down Limbs, Trees, Power Lines, Causing Outages
The season's first Nor'easter will bring widespread soaking rainfall followed by gusty, strong winds that could cause power outages.
The storm, which has developed off the Delmarva Peninsula, is intensifying as it moves north, will arrive Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 16 and continue overnight before ending Thursday morning, Oct. 17.
Preliminary forecast rainfall amounts are between 2 and 3 inches with locally heavier amounts.
Widespread flooding is …
Storm Knocks Out Power In Fairfield County
The storm bringing drenching downpours and strong, gusty winds to the area has resulted in numerous power outages in Fairfield County on Friday morning.
United Illuminating is reporting that 1,159 are without power in Fairfield at 9:40 a.m. In addition, 55 are without power in Shelton and 12 in Trumbull.
Eversource reported the following outage totals at 9:30 a.m.: Newtown (161), Danbury (144), Stamford (67), Redding (66), New Fairfield (45), Wilton(39), Weston (14), Ridgefield (12), Westport (11), New Canaan and Norwalk (fewer than five).
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Stormy Sunday, Monday: Cold, Rainfall Up To 3 Inches, Freezing Drizzle
Don't adjust your calendar.But it definitely does feel more like mid-February than mid-April, especially following a stretch of back-to-back days of true spring weather.
That trend will continue the next couple of days with heavy rain, possible thunderstorms, brisk winds and even the possibility of freezing rain in areas farther north.
The potential for pockets of freezing rain and drizzle into Sunday evening, mainly in higher elevations, is for Northern Westchester, Putnam Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Northern Fairfield and Western Passaic. A glaze of ice accretion is possible.
A period of…
