The winds arrived on Monday, March 11, and are likely to continue through the evening hours, with some isolated gusts as high as 60 miles per hour, according to weather reports.
Thanks to the wild winds, which pose a great risk to trees and branches already made vulnerable by saturated soil conditions and extra sap weight, thousands of residents are facing power outages.
As of Monday at around 5 p.m., Eversource was reporting 12,421 outages, while United Illuminating was reporting 1,190.
Towns with the most outages include:
- Middletown, with 1,698;
- Greenwich, with 1,416;
- Windsor, with 1,053;
- East Lyme, with 731;
- Meriden, with 698;
- Old Saybrook, with 574;
- Stamford, with 437.
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