Though Maine didn’t get a direct hit from Fiona, which remodeled from a hurricane right into a post-tropical storm late Friday, the storm did ship excessive winds that brought on some energy outages.
The storm landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, early Saturday damaging houses, taking down bushes and knocking out energy for 1000’s of residents. The Related Press reported that 414,000 Nova Scotia Energy prospects, about 80 p.c of the province, had been affected by outages Saturday morning.
In Maine, out of Central Maine Energy’s 665,561 prospects, there have been 2,447 energy outages Saturday morning.
A lot of the outages had been in Somerset County with 1,009 outages. Cumberland County reported 120 outages, 655 outages in Oxford County, and 342 in Franklin County. The outages had been because of the winds from the storm, in keeping with CMP.
Crews labored in a single day and into Saturday, and had been anticipated to revive energy shortly, in keeping with a CMP spokesperson.
All day Friday wind gusts had been between 25 to 30 miles per hour all through Maine, stated meteorologist Stephen Baron. The wind gust peak was 44 mph at 6:30 p.m., he stated. Excessive winds continued into Saturday, however had been anticipated to decrease by the top of the day.
The NWS has issued a excessive surf advisory with robust waves breaking the shore. That advisory stays in place till 11 p.m. Saturday, Baron stated.
Sunday’s forecast shall be a greater day with of a excessive of 67 levels and a few clouds.
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