Overview
- Overnight storms cut electricity to wide swaths from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Maine and the New York–New Jersey area, with Massachusetts reporting about 62,000 without power at daybreak and Maine listing roughly 13,800 CMP and 5,500 Versant customers out by early morning.
- In Quebec, outages peaked above 310,000 before easing to just over 190,000 by mid‑afternoon, while Ontario utilities reported thousands out in eastern regions and Ottawa as winds gusted up to 80–100 km/h.
- The Pittsburgh region continued to recover from last week’s windstorm, with Duquesne Light saying more than 155,000 customers have been restored and several thousand still out late Monday as work shifts to smaller, complex repairs with help from hundreds of mutual‑aid crews.
- Utilities cited safety rules that keep bucket trucks grounded in 30–40 mph gusts and noted downed trees and blocked roads were slowing access, with some companies initially constrained in securing mutual aid because neighboring systems were also hit.
- Travel and transit were disrupted across the corridor, including NJ Transit rail suspensions, a Reagan National ground stop that led to more than 240 flight cancellations, and peak wind gusts measured at 79 mph near Boston and 72 mph at JFK.