Hurricane Dorian MA: Storm Spares Most Of State

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA — Hurricane Dorian passed off the coast of Massachusetts Saturday morning, but by Saturday afternoon most areas were seeing sun and temperatures in the 60s and 70s. It was cooler on Cape Cod, where clouds were still lingering.

By 3 p.m., Eversource had just one outage affecting six customers on Cape Cod. The utility expected to restore service to those customers by 4:45 p.m.

Earlier on Saturday, Dorian was producing tropical storm conditions in southeastern Massachusetts. As the storm crossed Nantucket, there were reports of wind gusts up to 81 miles per hour. There were reports of trees and power lines down on Cape Cod, the South Shore and the South Coast.

On Cape Cod, the storm brought wind gusts of 63 miles per hour in Provincetown and 60 miles per hour in Wellfleet. On Nantucket, the storm was producing sustained winds of 64 miles per hour Saturday morning. The storm was expected to hit Canada as a hurricane later on the day on Saturday.

The Steamship Authority had put all reservations on its Nantucket route on hold for Saturday and Sunday. On the Martha's Vineyard route, reservations were on hold until 1:35 p.m. Cancellations were likely with decisions being made on a trip-by-trip basis.

In other parts of Massachusetts, however, Dorian did not bring as much rain or wind as originally forecast.