Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers were in the dark Saturday morning after the storm Nicole brought heavy winds and rain to the region.
More than 13,000 customers were without power early Saturday morning, but power was largely restored by the afternoon.
According to the Nova Scotia Power outage map, there are still 875 customers without power as of 12:15 p.m. Most of the outages are in the Bridgewater and Port Hawkesbury regions.
Though Nicole intensified to hurricane status on Thursday over Florida, it weakened to a tropical depression on Friday morning. According to the Canadian Hurricane Centre, Nicole was set to transition to a post-tropical storm Friday night.
On Friday, Environment Canada issued tropical cyclone statements for the province.
It warned of rain and wind over the Maritime provinces “with very mild, tropical temperatures and gusty winds over Nova Scotia (around 60 km/h) on the warm side and strong, cold northeasterly winds on the north side of the system.”
The entire province also remains under a rainfall warning, with up to 40 to 60 millimetres of rain expected throughout the region Saturday.
The rain is expected to taper to drizzle in the evening.
Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services is opening warming centres at the overnight shelter at 2029 North Park St. in Halifax and at the Elizabeth Seton Church at 125 Metropolitan Ave. in Lower Sackville due to the weather forecast.
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