Still More Than 20,000 Without Power Tuesday Morning

More than 20,000 are still without power after ferocious winds ripped across Massachusetts Monday. According to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, 21,371 were without power as of 10 a.m. Tuesday.

That's an improvement from Monday evening, when as many as 74,606 were without power during the peak of the outages. Wicked wind gusts of nearly 70 miles per hour were recorded around the state.

A wind advisory is in effect until 5 p.m. Tuesday. Winds are expected to still gust up to 40-50 m.p.h, making things difficult for power crews to go up in the buckets as they attempt to make restorations.

Some of the larger outages in Eastern Mass. Tuesday morning were in Acton and Westford, which had some 1,500 customers without power between them. In Central Mass., Sturbridge had 882 customers without lights.

Some smaller towns in Western Mass. were still majorly impacted. In Hampshire County, Worthington and Chesterfield were 99 percent without power, according to Eversource, and Chester was 97 percent without power.

Most of the outages beyond those were scattered amongst dozens of communities.

It was a bad morning to be without heat, as wind chills plummeted to close to zero degrees Tuesday morning.