Connecticut State Parks announced that several parks, recreation areas, and beaches are closed on Friday after reaching capacity.

As of 1 p.m., the following are closed due to the parking lots being full:

• Rocky Neck State Park
• Millers Pond State Park
• Hammonasset Beach State Park
• Mount Tom State Park
• Gardner Lake State Park
• Squantz Pond State Park
• Silver Sands State Park
• Pattaconk Recreation Area (Cockaponset State Forest)
• Scantic River State Park, Powder Hollow
• Satan’s Kingdom State Park

Connecticut continues to face excessive heat heading into the holiday weekend.

For a full forecast, head here.

The AGANORSA Leaf Aniversario Connecticut is now available in a new vitola, one that also comes in a metal tube.

It’s the second different toro for the line, though it will be difficult to confuse the two cigars. The AGANORSA Leaf Aniversario Connecticut Toro, the existing cigar, is a 6 1/4 x 52 box-pressed toro. The new AGANORSA Leaf Aniversario Connecticut Tubo is a 6 x 52 round toro. Blend-wise, the line uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper over Nicaraguan tobaccos grown by AGANORSA. The line is made at the company’s factory in Nicaragua.

The AGANORSA Leaf Aniversario Connecticut Tubo has an MSRP of $19.99 and comes in boxes of 10 cigars.

“The Aniversario Connecticut Tubo offers a perfect combination of elegance, convenience, and flavor,” said Terence Reilly, vp of sales & marketing for AGANORSA Leaf, in a press release when the cigar was announced in March. “It’s an ideal cigar for both longtime fans of the brand and smokers discovering Aganorsa for the first time.”

MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A motorcyclist has serious injuries after a crash early Friday morning in Meriden, according to police.

The crash happened just after 3:00 a.m. in the area of Lincoln Street. The motorcyclist was navigating a turn when they struck a parked, unoccupied vehicle, police said.

The motorcyclist was taken to an area trauma center, according to police.

A section of Lincoln Street is blocked for the investigation, police said.

Meriden’s accident investigation team responded to the scene.

Additional information was not immediately available.