Maine is recovering today after Wednesday night’s intense storm left more than 130,000 customers statewide without power at one point.

Jon Breed with Central Maine Power says the outages were primarily wind driven, unlike some other winter storms in the state.

“Sometimes in winter, we deal with that heavy, wet snow that leads to tree limb loading,” said Breed. “That did not bear out here. This was primarily wind. You know, wind speeds were forecasted to be 40, 50, 60, miles per hour in some cases along the coast, particularly in the Rockport region.”

Wind speeds last night reached close to 50 miler-per-hour in spots such as Bar Harbor.

Central Maine Power reported 70,000 customers without power at the height of the storm, while more than 59,000 Versant Power lost power.

Accuweather meteorologist Brian Thompson says conditions Wednesday night were primed for a major weather disruption.

“It was a cold front was crossing the area,” said Thompson. “We had a wave of low pressure moving along that it was strengthening rapidly, which helped to bring up some of this moisture. And there was a lot of moisture to work with, some pretty heavy rainfall rates at times yesterday, and we picked up a widespread two to three inches of rain across the area. And combine that with some of the melting snow on the ground in some places, and that created a recipe for some flooding.”

Luckily, heavy flooding was not an issue in Wednesday night’s storm. The presence of drought conditions is partially credited for allowing for the rain to be absorbed by the dry soil

The storm in December of last year was significantly more intense, as it left 400,000 people without power. Two people also died in last year’s storm.