Governor Patrick: We Hope That Most People Will Be Restored By the End of Today.

Good news if you are shivering in Massachusetts. Governor Deval Patrick, who has expressed frustration with the pace of restorations in his state, says he expects most of the 671,000 customers who lost power on Saturday and Sunday should have service by the end of today. Massachusetts began the day with about 215,000 customers without electricity.

UPDATE: Governor Patrick may be too optimistic. Here’s the outage map from Western Massachusetts Electric–a Northeast Utilities company–and it doesn’t look like it will have 99% of its customers restored today.

National Grid and WME now say Thursday should see nearly all customers restored.