Nor'easter Causes 650,000 Power Outages in Northeast

A powerful Nor'easter battered the Northeast on Sunday and into Monday, blanketing the region in heavy snow and unleashing gusty winds that left hundreds of thousands of customers without power across seven states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island.

As of mid-morning Monday, power outage trackers reported nearly 650,000 affected customers, with the numbers continuing to rise due to fallen trees and limbs damaging equipment amid the storm's fury. Massachusetts saw the most disruptions, with more than 214,000 customers impacted, particularly in southeastern areas and on Cape Cod. Eversource, the utility serving parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, reported about 207,000 outages and deployed hundreds of crews to address the damage. In New Jersey, outages exceeded 128,000, concentrated along the coast in counties like Ocean and Monmouth, where Jersey Central Power and Light alone had over 63,000 customers offline. Public Service Electric and Gas restored power to more than 31,000 customers since Sunday morning but still faced thousands of additional outages from high winds and wet snow.