Connecticut
Mostly cloudy with some flurries for parts of Connecticut on Monday
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
– The News 12 Storm Watch Team is tracking a snowstorm that continues to be mainly to the south of Connecticut.
– There is a chance for Fairfield and southernmost New Haven to see some light flurries.
– This is a quick moving system because south of Connecticut will get the northernmost part.
– Timing is mid-morning and clears by late afternoon. Amounts will likely be under a quarter of an inch.
– Windy weather will be behind the snow, which will bring gusts in the 20 to 30 mph range or even higher from Tuesday to Thursday. It will make already cold temperatures feel frigid.
– Precipitation wise, Monday’s snow is the main event for the work week which will not be a lot. Expect combinations of sun and clouds and wind for the rest of the work week. It’s far out, but there are some snow chances for next weekend that the News 12 Storm Watch Team will continue to monitor.
– Temperatures will feel extremely cold throughout the rest of the week, mainly highs in the 30s and 20s and lows in the teens and 20s. Wind chill will be a big factor over the next week.
FORECAST
OVERNIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Feeling very cold. Low of 22.
MONDAY: Mostly cloudy with a few flurries for some. High of 32, low of 18.
TUESDAY: Sun, clouds and windy. High of 31, low of 19.
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: Breezy and gusty conditions remain. Highs in the 30s with Friday and the weekend getting into the upper-30s.
The search continues for a rare collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts that went missing after a visit to Connecticut College in New London, including a letter written days after the president’s assassination.
Sameer Somal, a Lincoln enthusiast, said the artifacts disappeared Tuesday after he accidentally left the folder containing them on top of his car and drove away following interviews with fellow Lincoln scholars at Connecticut College.
“The plan was to interview them, and I was going to show them some of these artifacts,” Somal said.
Somal said he has spent years assembling the collection, which included portraits of Lincoln, original Civil War-era newspapers, and an original invitation to Lincoln’s 1864 inaugural ball.
Among the items was a document Somal described as especially significant.
“There was a letter, which is particularly precious, written on April 17th, 1865, from General William Tecumseh Sherman about the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,” Somal said.
After realizing the folder was missing, Somal contacted campus security. He said he was initially told the folder had been recovered, but later learned security had mistaken it for a book that had fallen from his car.
“I proceeded to look in the dark in my state of disappointment and trauma,” Somal said.
The next day, Somal made the five-hour trip back to New London and checked with the police. He believes the folder likely fell on or near the Connecticut College campus, but it has not been turned in.
Somal said the loss goes beyond the monetary value of the artifacts, as the collection was intended to serve as a centerpiece for a future museum dedicated to Lincoln in Illinois.
Now he is asking whoever found the folder to return it.
“I will do anything to get these items back and anything to help someone else in life if I can just get them back,” Somal said.
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