Connecticut is part of New England
Every New England region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. Connecticut is where a New England winter storm decides what it is going to be. The rain–snow line runs across it more often than across any other state here: the shoreline from Greenwich to New London is warmed by the Sound and can stay all rain while Torrington and the Litchfield Hills, forty miles north and a thousand feet up, take a foot. Hurricanes matter too — 1938, Carol, Gloria and Sandy all came up the funnel of Long Island Sound, which raises surge the way few coastlines do.