Just as students settle into their educational routines, it's hooky weather in southeastern Connecticut.

Gary Lessor, meteorologist from the Western Connecticut State University Weather Center, said Sunday that Monday through Thursday will see temperatures consistently in the mid-80s on the shoreline and close to the 90s inland in places like Norwich and Colchester. The weather will be on the humid side, he added.

"It's too bad the best days of the summer are going to be school days," Lessor said.

Lessor said he wouldn't call the next few days a heat wave because the temperatures will not be too far off season averages of 79 on the shoreline and 81 in the interior. And it's probably not the last gasp for summery weather, either, he said, because high temperatures are not unusual into mid-September.

"We're not anywhere near records (which would be in the mid 90s)," Lessor said.

Lessor said he didn't see any major rainstorms headed toward the region for the next two weeks. Tropical Storm Erika has dissipated and is not expected to affect southeastern Connecticut, which is a similar pattern foreseen for Tropical Storm Fred, currently off the African coast and expected to become a hurricane within the next day or so.

"We're in an extremely dry pattern right now," Lessor said. "Erika would have been a good thing."

But Dave Sugrue, manager at Ocean Beach Park in New London, said he has been enjoying the current weather pattern.

"Brown grass is always good from our perspective," he said in a phone interview Sunday. "It's been an unbelievable year. It's like nothing I've ever seen before."

Sugrue said June was a little cold and rainy, but since then the weather has been spectacular. The beach has consistently been closing by the late afternoon on weekends because Ocean Beach's parking lots are filling up.

Ocean Beach was helped out by a favorable article in The Boston Globe that named the city park the best beach in New England for little kids.

"As long as the sun is shining, we're busy," he said. "We're not going out with a whimper."

Likewise, Berry's Ice Cream & Candy Bar in downtown New London reported a brisk business Sunday and co-owner Laura Beckham was expecting more good times ahead with continued hot and humid weather most of the week.

"We get a lot of afternoon beach business and a lot of kids coming over after school," Beckham said. "It's been a great weekend."

Bob Sommers, a tenant at the New London Antiques Center on Bank Street in New London, said hot days aren't the best for retail businesses. But at least people are out and about, poking their heads in the door to check out the center shops, he said.

"They come around to look," he said, "but they're looking to buy later."

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