(WFSB) – The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents met to discuss the search for an interim chancellor.

The meeting lasted about an hour and a half, with nearly the entire time spent in executive session. Before the board adjourned, they said no action was taken that needed to be publicly addressed.

The board elected a temporary chair who almost immediately moved to make the discussion private.

“The board will now go into executive session to discuss preliminary drafts and notes as well as personnel matters,” said Ari Santiago, Board of Regents, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities.

The meeting comes after the former chancellor, his replacement and the board chair stepped down in the last year amid controversies.

Last spring, former Chancellor Terrence Cheng was made a special advisor to the board after a state audit found thousands of dollars worth of questionable spending like travel and entertainment.

John Maduko was then named interim chancellor. Last month, he was put on administrative leave and then resigned. Documents obtained found Maduko was under investigation for sexual harassment.

This week, Board of Regents Chair Marty Guay resigned. In the complaint filed against Maduko, a woman says she did not report the harassment sooner because she says Guay told her he previously fired a woman for filing a sexual assault complaint.

Karen Bufkin, CSCU’s general counsel, is currently leading the system. She was part of the meeting.

Governor Ned Lamont says he plans to appoint a new chair for the Board of Regents by the end of this week.

Memorial Day weekend is expected to be mostly fair, with Saturday looking the driest.

Highs are likely to be in the high 50s and 60s across much of the state this weekend, according to the National Weather Service — a break from the recent, and in some cases record-breaking heat.

However, there is a chance of rain in the latter half, according to the weather service, and it may be best to pack that extra layer: Lows will likely dip into the 40s and even 30s in some areas.

Authorities are also reminding Mainers and Vacationlanders alike to take extra precautions out on Maine’s many bodies of water as air temperatures at this time of year are often far higher than water temperatures.

THE HIGHS

The weather service’s office in Gray projects high temperatures to hover in the 60s Friday and Saturday across the southern and central regions.

The Augusta, Fryeburg and Waterville areas can expect high temperatures in the mid-to-high 60s to kick off the weekend, the agency projected Wednesday, while the Portland and Lewiston areas can expect temperatures in the lower 60s.

High temperatures in much of the southern half of the state will dip to the low 60s and high 50s Sunday, the agency forecast.

“High pressure is coming down from Canada,” Jon Palmer, a meteorologist at the weather service’s office in Gray, explained on Wednesday. “It’s going to sit over the area through Sunday and even potentially into Monday.”

Meanwhile, high temperatures in northern and eastern Maine are projected to be in the high 50s or low 60s Saturday before taking a small dip on Sunday, according to the weather service’s office in Caribou.

THE LOWS

On the other side of that high-pressure system is rain, but the likelihood varies by location.

James Sinko, lead meteorologist at the weather service’s office in Caribou, said Wednesday that the Bangor, Downeast and Moosehead Lake regions can expect some showers Sunday afternoon, with more widespread showers in northern and eastern Maine on Monday.

As of Wednesday, the weather service in Gray projects that southern regions stand about a 40% to 50% chance of seeing rain Sunday, with significantly lower chances Monday.

Palmer warned that the timing all depends on when the high-pressure system departs, but any rain should be light regardless.

“It doesn’t look like we’ll have the heat to produce convective thunderstorms or anything like that,” he said.

Temperatures will cool off in the evenings and early mornings across Maine throughout the weekend. While the southern half of the state can expect low temperatures in the low 40s (with higher elevations a bit chillier), northern Maine is expecting lows in the 30s, according to the weather service.

WATER SAFETY

Sinko noted that Maine has already lost several people who were recreating on the water this season.

“A lot of water temperatures are generally in the 40s to 50s, and it only takes a couple of minutes to get hypothermia,” the meteorologist said. “You can succumb to your body shutting down in the water.”

That makes it an especially important time to wear a life preserver and make sure other safety equipment is readily available. The agency is conducting a joint effort with state authorities to warn the public of the hazards, Sink said.

“We want to emphasize cold water safety, and have people know everything they need to survive going into cold waters,” Sinko said.

A Southboro, Massachusetts family came within feet of being struck by lightning on Tuesday, and the entire incident was caught on camera.

Brad Robillard had just got home with his son and daughter. “It sounded like a bomb was going off,” Robillard said. 

As he went to get his daughter out of the back seat of his pickup truck, an explosion happened right behind him.

“I had literally just told my son that the chances of getting struck by lightning are pretty slim,” said Robillard. “It was the hair raising on the back of your neck, then immediately right after, it went off.”

Robillard knew there was thunder and lightning in the area. He counted to “10 Mississippi” before getting out of the car. It’s common teaching to determine how close lightning is. You start the count after you hear thunder and then divide by 5. It gives a rough estimate of how many miles the last lightning strike was.

“I had counted to 10 before we got out of the car and I’m like yeah, it’s OK. I never thought it would be on top of us on the next one,” said Robillard.

In the video you can see an explosion happening right behind him, but he doesn’t believe that is the lightning strike. There is a tree in his backyard with a line of bark shaved off the side. He thinks the lightning struck the tree, ran into a metal fence in their backyard, and then climbed their home and exited from a soffit at the roof. There are burn marks at the soffit and scorch marks on parts of the fence.

“The path of least resistance, then that big explosion behind me,” said Robillard.

The surveillance footage of the incident made quick rounds on the internet, but Robillard is still trying to wrap his head around what happened.

“At the time it’s like, ‘Wow what is going on?’ Then we ran inside and the adrenaline wears off, that’s what you start thinking about,” said Robillard.