The biggest clusters of outages were reported in Ocean, Mercer, Burlington, Sussex and Warren counties, with about 1,200 outages in the Plumsted area in Ocean and more than 1,000 in the Trenton area in Mercer as of 1:45 p.m.

A wind advisory will be in effect Wednesday for much of the Capital Region. High wind gusts could blow down tree limbs and knock out power, meteorologists said. The advisory will be in effect from 11 a.

More than two-thousand households are without power on Wednesday evening as Connecticut experiences strong winds and gusts of up to 55 mph.

Thousands of homes and businesses in Massachusetts are without power as strong wind gusts lash the region on Tuesday.