Around 1:30 a.m., several storms ranging from South Carolina to Canada moved into the East Coast, although most weren't as large or violent as the one experienced briefly throughout Massachusetts.
This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a low pressure system over eastern Canada, with its cold front extending southwestward across the Mid-Atlantic, Tennessee Valley then into the Southern Plains. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are firing up ahead of the cold front across much of the Eastern Seaboard. An area of moderate to strong thunderstorms is developing over the Oklahoma Panhandle. In the Gulf of Campeche, Tropical Storm Arlene is located about 215 miles east of Tampico Mexico. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)UPDATE: Two of the three utility companies in the region reported an increase in active outages from the overnight storm. As of 6:30 a.m., the number of affected customers included:
WMECO: 158 customers without power, down from 483 at 2:30 a.m.
National Grid: 196 customers without power, up from 126 at 2:30 a.m.
Connecticut Light and Power: 473 customers without power, up from 24 at 2:30 a.m.
SPRINGFIELD - A quick-moving thunderstorm that hit the region early Wednesday morning left nearly 500 people without power and caused several false fire and burglary alarms.
Around 1:30 a.m., several storms ranging from South Carolina to Canada moved into the East Coast, although most weren't as large or violent as the one experienced briefly in Western Massachusetts.
According to Western Massachusetts Electric Company, there were a total of 486 reported outages as of 2:30 a.m. Agawam took the most serious hit with 483 customers reporting an electrical outage. Springfield, Amherst and the Berkshire County town of Peru reported one outage each.
National Grid reported a total of 126 affected customers around 2:30 a.m., with only five residing in Western Massachusetts. The bulk of the National Grid customers affected were in the coastal town of Weymouth, just East of Quincy and Braintree.
Connecticut Light and Power reported a total of 24 affected customers throughout Suffield, Stafford, Ellington, Windsor Locks, Salisbury and Danbury.
All aforementioned utilities reported on their respective websites that power was expected to be restored within a couple hours but as additional reports flooded in early Wednesday, it looked like crews would be at work for much of the day repairing the infrastructure.