MONDAY STORM BRINGS RAIN, HAIL TO REGION

Heavy rain soaked parts of the region on Monday, dropping quarter-sized hail or larger in areas that included Old Lyme and Colchester.

The worst was over by 6 p.m., with a few lingering showers and rumbles of thunder, said Gary Lessor, assistant director of the Weather Center at Western Connecticut State University. He said there were reports of hail measuring 1.25 inches in Old Lyme.

Few power outages were reported due to a lack of strong winds but flash flood warnings were in place until Monday evening for western parts of New London County. The unsettled weather will remain for much of the week. The forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday includes a chance for thunderstorms accompanied by high humidity. The Fourth of July is expected to be cooler with lower humidity and a chance for scattered showers. among the 960 offenders tested. There were no positive tests reported among the 563 offenders tested at the Janet S. York Correctional Institution York in Niantic, the only state facility for females.

This week, the DOC said agency health care staff will again be offering testing to the approximately 440 offenders who had previously opted out, with the goal of achieving at least a 90% overall facility compliance rate.

The mass testing began on May 13 and concluded on June 25.

All but two of the offenders who tested positive as part of the mass testing were asymptomatic. The remainder of the offenders who tested positive stayed asymptomatic throughout the 14-day isolation and monitoring period, the DOC said.

At present, out of the approximately 10,000 incarcerated offenders, only three are still recuperating from coronavirus-related symptoms. The mass testing results do not include the 510 offenders who had previously contracted the virus prior to the start of the mass testing.

Mass testing of the department’s staff is also being conducted, and is ongoing. Since the onset of the pandemic some four months ago, 380 employees have tested positive for the virus and all but three of them have since recovered and returned to work. It is anticipated that the remaining three staff members will return to work within the next few weeks.

Testing of all DOC staff members who have direct contact with the offender population is expected to continue.