WEATHER UPDATE: Strong Storms, Heavy Rain, Flash Flooding For Mansfield

This certainly doesn’t feel like June 1, it feels more like Oct. 1. Temperatures will be in the mid 50s today, but the temperatures aren’t the real story.

The National Weather Service has issued both a “Hazardous Weather Outlook” and “Flash Flood Watch” for the entire state of Connecticut, which lasts until Tuesday at 8 p.m.

According to the National Weather Service periods of showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain will continue through Tuesday as several disturbances track into the area impacting Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex, and New London counties.

“Heavy rain with rainfall rates as high as 2 to 3 inches per hour could cause flash flooding,” the weather service writes adding that up to 4 inches in certain areas is possible.

Up north in Hartford and Tolland counties the advisories are the same as the southern part of the state, but the details are slightly different.

The National Weather Service writes that “another round of heavy rainfall will approach Connecticut early this morning bringing an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain in an already saturated region. Expect a few more waves of heavy rainfall to impact the area tonight and tomorrow.”

Additionally, the heavy rainfall may produce flooding problems as well.

Once we get past Tuesday the weather is better and calmer as the sun returns Wednesday with highs near 70, more sun and around 70 on Thursday, and clouds are back on Friday with temps in the mid 70s, but as of right now no rain is forecast.

Here is Mansfield’s latest stormy hyperlocal forecast from the National Weather Service:

• Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely after 1pm. Patchy fog before 3pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 54. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
• Tonight: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3am, then showers likely between 3am and 5am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5am. Patchy fog before 3am. Low around 49. Northeast wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
• Tuesday: Rain and possibly a thunderstorm before 11am, then rain likely. High near 56. North wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
• Tuesday night: A chance of rain, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 46. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
• Wednesday: Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind.