UPDATE: At 10:50 p.m. Wednesday, the number of CL&P customers in Newtown without power was at 46, down from 601. In Southbury, 229 are without power. A dozen outages were reported in New Milford, and roughly two dozen were without power in Sherman and New Fairfield.
As of 10:05 p.m. Wednesday, 601 Connecticut Light & Power customers were without power in Newtown. Another 157 customers were in the dark in Southbury.
A cold front moving into the area brought severe storms to Fairfield County on Wednesday night. Strong wind, lightning, hail and heavy rain were associated with these storms.