Weather Report

Rainy nor’easter peaking

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 11:30am

    Rain and wind were making an unpleasant Thursday, but the slow-moving storm producing them was failing to cause flooding in Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties.

    That’s because the rain has been off and on, and the nor’easter is only a moderate one, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

    As midday approached, the region was getting some of the highest winds of the storm that arrived Tuesday; the rain would remain heavy at times until early Friday, when it should slacken to off-and-on showers, meteorologist Eric Schwibs of NWS’ Gray office said.

    Winds were running close to 20 mph and gusting to as high as 35-40 mph, with the strongest winds closer to the water on the Boothbay peninsula and lesser ones in Wiscasset and inland areas, Schwibs said.

    As of shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday, Central Maine Power’s website was listing four Wiscasset customers out of power. Lincoln County’s 105 other outages were in Bristol, South Bristol and Bremen, according to the site.

    Three Sagadahoc County customers, in Bath and Bowdoin, were without power.

    The Lincoln and Sagadahoc county sheriff’s offices were reporting no road or other issues from the storm.