WEATHER UPDATE: Showers, Thunderstorms Possible Tuesday, Then Sun For Days

It’s 50-50 as to whether we’ll see showers and thunderstorms today for those of us living in Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex and New London counties on Tuesday.

If you live in Hartford and Tolland counties the odds are slightly higher at 60 percent and a “Hazardous Weather Outlook” has been issued for there.

If we do see severe weather, it’s likely to begin after 9 a.m. and could last up until midnight for the southern half of Connecticut, except in New London County where storms are possible beginning after noon.

In Hartford and Tolland counties severe weather is possible after 11 a.m. and according to the National Weather Service’s “Hazardous Weather Outlook” a “few to severe” storms are possible and the main threat is “damaging wind gusts.”

The severe weather threat ends up north by 10 p.m. tonight.

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Despite the chance of storms for the entire state on Tuesday, we can also expect to see sun too, the weather service writes.

WTNH News 8’s Meteorologist Gil Simmons summed up Tuesday’s forecast in a lot less words, “Humid with a passing downpour or thunderstorm today. Some sun too.”

After Tuesday, the forecast can be summed up by one word from Wednesday through the end of next Monday, sunshine.

Sunshine and temps in the low to mid 80s are forecast from Wednesday and through the upcoming weekend.