Your 3pm Connecticut weather update Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Coastal Flood Statement. around 91 degrees Good afternoon, Connecticut. The air feels like you're breathing through a wet towel, that's a hot, humid air mass camped right over us. And it's cranking heat index values near 100 degrees this afternoon, with we're running 55 degrees hotter than a typical June day.