CT Power Outages Town-By-Town: Over 6,000 Without Power Thursday

CONNECTICUT — Thousands of homes and business are without power just before 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Eversource officials are reporting 5,208 customers without power, or about 0.41 percent of their total base. There are 1,025 United Illuminating homes and businesses currently affected by the storm.

On Tuesday, both utilities wrestled with another storm that dropped trees and utility poles across the state. A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the coast of New Haven and Middlesex counties and for all of New London County.

The worst of the week's weather is expected to hit the state around 10 a.m. Friday, as Tropical Storm Elsa sweeps through in earnest.

"Throughout this week’s destructive thunderstorms we’ve restored power to 80-thousand customers and at the same time, we’ve also been watching multiple forecasts to track and prepare for Tropical Storm Elsa," Eversource Electric Operations President Craig Hallstrom said in a statement released Thursday.

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Statewide 2-4 inches of rain is expected, and the strongest wind gusts are expected in southeast Connecticut. Winds could gust up to 60 mph. Some areas of Connecticut may see more than four inches of rain. A severe thunderstorm watch is also in effect for Connecticut until 9 p.m.

NBC Connecticut meteorologist Ryan Hanrahan is calling for high-drama weather through 9 p.m. Thursday night.

"Trees are the number one cause of outages and winds of 35-45 mph are expected with this storm and will bring down limbs and branches onto electric lines so we encourage our customers to be prepared for outages as well," Hallstrom said.

Hanrahan's colleague Josh Cinganelli posted to Twitter that the weather system was moving slowly eastward across the state, and was packing an electrical wallop.

A line of strong storms are slowly moving east extending from Madison to Middletown. Gusty winds, heavy rain, and frequent lightning. #nbcct pic.twitter.com/E8dt4rkhKD
— Josh Cingranelli (@WeatherJosh) July 8, 2021

A flash flood watch is in effect for southern Connecticut through Friday morning. A flash flood watch is in effect for Hartford, Tolland, Windham and Litchfield counties through Friday afternoon.