High Winds Brought Power Outages Throughout Mass. Thursday

Tens of thousands of customers in Massachusetts experienced power outages Thursday as high winds cut across the state.

At one point during the afternoon, almost 45,000 customers in the state were without power, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency's outage map.

Gusts of up to 60 mph and downed trees and tree limbs had been expected.

The number of outages in the state was down to a little under 10,00 shortly after 5:45 p.m., according to MEMA's outage map.

During the day, the outages were worst in central Massachusetts. A majority of customers were without power in the towns of Ashby, Townsend, Lunenberg and West Brookfield.

Downed trees caused by high winds ended up impacting MBTA service for part of the day.

At one point, a downed tree near the T's Brookline Hills station caused severe delays on the Green Line's D branch. Service between Kenmore and Reservoir stations was replaced with buses to ease the delays.

The MBTA's Worcester-Framingham commuter rail also saw delays from a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Grafton.

A high wind advisory for all of southern New England from the National Weather Service remained in effect until 7 p.m.