Power is out for more than 68,000 Connecticut Light and power customers and more than 12,000 United Illuminating customers on Thursday morning as a significant storm system rolls through the state.
Transformer explosions have contributed to the problem.
The highest prcentages of outages for CL&P customers are in East Haddam, Franklin, Woodstock, Montville and Salem, but they are outages throughout the state. Power is out for more than 1,000 customers in Cromwell, Coventry, Hartford, Clinton, Glastonbury, Guilford, East Haddam. Darien, Danbury, Killingworth, Montville, Monroe, Norwalk, Mansfield, Manchester, Madison, Newtown, Tolland, Stafford, Sprague, Stamford, Seymour, and Westport.
More than 2,000 power outages are reported in Bridgeport and Stratford for UI, and more than 1,000 are without power in Fairfield, Milford and North Branford
Power outages are affecting the school day. More than 70 delays and closings are posted.
The state Department of Motor Vehicles Bridgeport branch office will open late because of power outages. Check the DMV Web site for updates.
The weather will calm down tomorrow with breezy weather, clearing skies and falling temperatures.
Advisories are posted through tomorrow morning.
You can watch the interactive radar here.
If you take weather photos. you can send them to us here.
