More Than 30,000 Without Power In CT: Town-By-Town Outages

CONNECTICUT — More than 30,000 Connecticut residents are still without power on Christmas Eve and also the coldest temperatures of the season.

Temperatures won't climb past 20 degrees on Saturday, and the wind chill factor may make it feel as cold as 10 degrees below zero.

Eversource said its team of lineworkers continue "working nonstop to restore power to customers following Friday’s fierce rain and windstorm."

As of 11 a.m. Saturday, the energy company has restored power to more than 173,000 customers since the storm began and approximately 30,000 Eversource customers remain without power.

The energy company expects to have power restored to all customers affected by this storm by Christmas morning with many being restored before that, company officials said. The company released town-by-town power restoration estimates.

“We recognize how difficult it is to be without power, especially with extreme cold and as we approach Christmas,” said President of Eversource Connecticut Steve Sullivan. “We’re at the point of the restoration where the repairs made at one location may only bring back a dozen customers, so the outage numbers won’t be dropping as quickly as they did earlier in the restoration."

A special weather statement has been issued for concerns about black ice, as any residual water froze as temperatures dropped by almost 50 degrees in a matter of hours Friday. On Christmas Day, temperatures will reach into the upper 20s but the wind chill factor will make it feel as cold as zero.

Temperatures won't climb above the freezing mark until Tuesday. By Friday, Connecticut is forecast to see high temperatures into the 50s. No storms are forecast through at least next Friday, mainly sunny and cold until Tuesday and then slowly warming up through the end of next week.

Thursday and Friday's powerful storm knocked down numerous trees and power lines across the state, and at one point, more than 100,000 residents were without power.

The National Weather Service said Lighthouse Point in New Haven recorded 64 mph wind gusts, Hammonasset State Park in Madison, 61 mph, Hartford-Brainard Airport, 58 mph, Stony Creek, 53 mph, Meriden Airport, 53 mph, Chester Airport, 52 mph, Waterbury Airport, 52 mph, Groton Airport, 52 mph, Bradley Airport, 51 mph, and Danielson, 51 mph.

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UI outages as of 8 a.m.