Roughly 17,000 Nova Scotia Power customers are still without electricity as a wind and rainstorm continues to hammer the province.
As of 1:30 p.m., the utility’s outage map shows outages scattered all over the province.
Temperatures remain mild, resting in the low-teens, with a chance of thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon. Winds could gust up to 100 km/h.
That has closed the McKay Bridge in Halifax to high-sided vehicles, as well.
With frozen ground in some areas limiting how much rain can soak in, localized flooding is possible in spots with poor drainage. Rain is expected to taper off later this evening, but there is a 30 per cent chance of flurries, and the windchill is forecast to drop to minus 10 overnight.
