Hundreds of New Haven power outages restored Friday afternoon

More than 2,500 customers lost power in the New Haven area on Friday afternoon.

United Illuminating, which provides power to the Bridgeport and New Haven areas, reported an outage affecting more than 2,500 customers as of 1:52 p.m. A majority of the affected customers were in New Haven, although a handful were reported in Orange. 

The outages, which surged around 12:30 p.m., were mostly restored by 2:30 p.m. when just nine customers were without power.

The company estimated power to be restored by 3:30 p.m. The cause of the outage was not immediately clear. 

Heavy rain and thunderstorms swept across Connecticut Thursday night, causing power outages throughout the state through Friday morning. However, outages from the storms were mostly restored by Friday morning.