Almost 50,000 homes in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic have lost power due to the storm, Reuters reports.
CBS Local in Boston reports that 5,400 had lost power by 2.30pm.
The National Weather Service had warned of scattered powered outages.
"This isn't [superstorm] Sandy," News12 meteorologist Brysen Van Eck said earlier. "There isn't going to be widespread trees across highways. It won't take us days to recover."
ConEdison customers can report downed power lines and outages here.
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