Hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents are waking up without power due to a powerful storm with heavy rain and hurricane-force gusts.
The storm swept through coastal New England on Oct. 26, reported The New York Times.
According to Boston 25 News Meteorologist Shiri Spear, wind is the primary concern as of Oct. 27, so the area is under a High Wind Warning for parts of Massachusetts and southern Rhode Island, according to the Weather Service. Crews across the states are responding to calls for downed trees and other storm damage.
As of 9 a.m. ET on Oct. 27, approximately 500,000 customers in Massachusetts, 100,000 in Rhode Island and 20,000 in Maine were without power, according to PowerOutage.us.
According to a tweet by NWB, coastal residents should stay indoors and away from windows. Another tweet said that the pressure on Nantucket dropped 28 mb over the past 24 hours (1008 mb to 980 mb) which meets the criteria for a bomb cyclone.
Andrew Loconto, a meteorologist with the Weather Service in Boston, said that the storm was just south of Nantucket but was expected to move out to sea later in the day Oct. 27, reported The New York Times.
Loconto adds that the Boston area could still see wind gusts up to 55 miles per hour and Cape Cod could see winds near 65 m.p.h. All schools on the Cape have been closed, according to the Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee, reported CBS Boston. The Massachusetts Steamship Authority that runs ferries from the mainland to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket canceled all services until further notice.
The hardest hit areas are on the South Shore, Cape Cod and Cape Ann, reported CBS Boston.
