UPDATED: Winter Storm Continues to Pummel Parts of Connecticut

Updated: 7:40 a.m.:

There are significantly less than the 100,000 power outages that state and utility officials predicted would occur during the Blizzard of 2015.

Connecticut Light & Power has a total of eight customers offline as of 7:39 a.m. — one in Windsor, seven in Middletown. United Illuminating doesn’t have any outages.

And in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced via Twitter, “Travel ban for Hudson Valley, Nassau County, and NYC lifted effective 7:30 am. @MTA system wide service expected this morning.”

Original story: 7:16 a.m.

As Connecticut wakes up to the first morning of “Storm Juno” as many are calling the Blizzard of 2015, it appears southwest Connecticut may have dodged the predicted “crippling and historic” storm.

The blizzard warning was lifted early Tuesday for much of Fairfield County where a winter storm warning remains in effect until midnight. However, heavy snow and near whiteout conditions were reported in northern Connecticut as well as eastern Connecticut including Middlesex and New London counties, according to the National Weather Service. Those areas remain under a blizzard warning with snow predictions still at 20 to 30 inches.

Statewide, high winds will continue to blow the fluffy, light snow affecting visibility throughout the day Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. As of 7:15 a.m., power outages were minimal around the state — one customer in Ridgefield and seven in Middletown.

Gov. Dannel Malloy’s travel ban on all roads remains in effect, Metro-North train service is shut down and Bradley International Airport is still closed.

Malloy’s road-travel ban, issued Monday, remains in effect “until further notice,” and that notice hasn’t come. Malloy is scheduled to hold a news conference at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the State Emergency Operations Center in Hartford.

On Tuesday morning, Metro-North stated on its website that its trains and all New York City subway and bus service are “suspended for the duration of Winter Storm Juno. Non-emergency vehicular traffic is now banned on all nine MTA Bridge & Tunnel facilities. Service will remain suspended for the foreseeable future.

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• How to Report Power Outages
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• What’s the Deal With Naming Winter Storms?
• January Blizzard: What You Need to Know

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