A contractor with NB Power repairs a power line in Fredericton, on Dec. 19.Stephen MacGillivray/The Canadian Press
About 14,000 customers remain without power in parts of western and southwestern New Brunswick as crews race to restore electricity before Christmas.
High winds that blasted through the province on Monday knocked out power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses as trees fell on transmission lines.
As of 11 a.m. today the majority of the outages were concentrated in Carleton, Charlotte southwest and the central York Sunbury areas.
Meanwhile in Nova Scotia, slightly less than 10,000 customers are without power as winter weather continues to batter parts of the province’s east and Cape Breton.
Environment Canada has issued wind and snow warnings extending into late tonight for those areas.
Most of Newfoundland and Labrador is forecast to receive about 20 centimetres of snow buffeted by gusts that could reach as high as 100 kilometres an hour along coastal areas.