Almost 15,000 customers were without power during the height of the storms that pounded Connecticut with gusting winds and heavy rain late Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Almost 11,000 Eversource customers and more than 4,000 United Illuminating customers had lost service around 11 p.m. Wednesday while the storm steadily marched northeast across the state.
Most of the outages were scattered across the western edge of the state and along the coastline, where winds were most serious late Wednesday night. Officials across Fairfield County reported downed trees and power lines along with some flooding in the low-lying areas of the coast and urban areas with poor drainage.
Wind and flood advisories were in effect across the state throughout the afternoon and night with winds from 20 mph to 30 mph and gusts as high as 50 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
A flood advisory also will be in effect for the Hartford area from 10 p.m. Wednesday through Thursday morning while other flood advisories will remain in effect across other parts of the state at varying times of the night.
Total rainfall of 2 to 3 inches was expected in the Hartford area and up to 5 inches in some local areas, which will cause minor flooding in some urban and poor-drainage areas, forecasters said.
The rain is expected to taper off around midnight across the area, forecasters said.
The storm will hit hardest along the coast, with 2 to 3 feet of inundation expected above ground level along the coast in the southwestern corner of the state, where a coastal flood warning is in effect through 4 a.m. Thursday, according to the weather service.
Rain will continue Thursday, and the wind will pick up, with gusts as high as 46 mph, the weather service said. The high will be in the mid-50s.
The weather then will begin to clear, and Friday will be partly sunny. The temperature will be in the upper 50s, and wind gusts as high as 25 mph are possible.
The winds will diminish by the weekend, and Saturday and Sunday will be sunny, the weather service said. Saturday’s highs will be in the low 60s and Sunday’s in the mid-60s.
Christine Dempsey can be reached at cdempsey@courant.com.
