Soccer fans protect themselves from the rain Tuesday as they settle in for a high school soccer game between Gardiner High School and Medomak Valley High School at Messalonskee High School in Oakland. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
Communities across central Maine were without power Wednesday morning as a nor’easter pushed through the region, bringing both wind and rain.
But with a wind advisory that expired at noon Wednesday for the Augusta area and not much rain, damage reports were few.
“We had a scattering (of outages) going on for an hour, an hour and a half in Readfield, a couple in Belgrade and Waterville,” Sean Goodwin, Kennebec County’s emergency management director, said Wednesday morning.
Outages were also reported in Dresden and Pittston in Central Maine Power territory, but both were cleared up by mid-morning.
By 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night, CMP was listing outages for Kennebec County had dropped to 23. In Somerset County, power was still out to 57 customers.
No flooding or washouts were reported because only about an inch of rain fell overnight in the Augusta area, Goodwin said, and a couple of downed trees were reported. Wind gusts reached up to 48 mph in Augusta and 35 mph in Waterville, while most coastal areas had gusts around 45 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm’s biggest impacts were south and west of central Maine, he said.
Andy Pohl, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Gray, said the storm would slowly move out of the region Wednesday. While the wind advisory across coastal areas was extended through the afternoon, it was going to be allowed to expire midday for central Maine.
“The storm’s going to stick around with us today, and we’ll get a little bit of a break before we have another one come in on Saturday,” Pohl said Wednesday.
The current forecast shows the weekend storm is expected to take a more inland track and is poised to dump rain across the region Saturday night, he said, with unsettled conditions extending into Sunday, which is Halloween.
“It’s not going to be anything like this last one,” he said, noting that the forecast will be revised throughout the week.
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