News for Your Possibly Rainy Day

1. We’ll start today’s “5 Things” on a personal note—yours truly became engaged Saturday night. As we’re planning to get married in just over a year, we might be needing some wedding advice. On that note …

2. Are you a local expert on wedding planning, gardening, home repair, homeschooling, history, religion or any other topic that might be of interest to our readers? Then consider applying to become one of our Local Voices bloggers. .

3. Keep an umbrella handy today just in case.

The National Weather Service puts the chances of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and late evening at 30 percent. We should see mostly cloudy skies and a high near 78 during the daytime hours, coupled with winds of 5 to 10 mph with gusts as high as 15 mph. The temp will drop to about 58 tonight under mostly cloudy skies.

We’ll see the 30-percent chance of showers and thunderstorms remain Tuesday, then increase to 50 percent Wednesday, with the 50/50 chance of such weather remaining through Thursday night. All in all, you’ll probably thank yourself for keeping that umbrella nearby most of the workweek.

4. We had a lot of great stories and features last week, from video of a car chase and 9/11 events to news of new business and school redistricting. If you missed any of it, or just need a refresher, you can .

5. Coming up today, we’ll bring you our weekly Local Job Alert and our Pets of the Week photo gallery (back to being featured on Monday after coming to you on Wednesday last week). You’ll see all of this and more today, so stay tuned!