Darien Morning Briefing, Aug. 1

Today is Monday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2011. Keep an umbrella handy — there's a chance of late afternoon showers and thunderstorms.

HEADLINES

EVENTS & REMINDERS

• Blood Pressure Clinc: At 10 a.m., the Darien Senior Center will hold
• Story Time: Bring your family to the  tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for "Sleepytime Stories," a pajama story time.
• Get Puzzled: Help the library solve the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in record time for a chance to be entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.
• DCA Closed: The  is closed through Friday, Aug. 12.

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

• RTM TGS&A Committee: 7:30 p.m., employee lounge

FORECAST

• Monday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4 p.m. Some of the storms could be severe. Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming west between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
• Monday night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8 p.m. Some of the storms could be severe. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Northwest wind between 3 and 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

TIDES & TIMES

• High tide: 12:48 a.m. (8.4')
• Sunrise: 5:49 a.m.
• Low tide: 7:18 a.m. (-0.6)
• High tide: 1:19 p.m. (8.2')
• Low tide: 7:37 p.m. (-0.2')
  
• Sunset: 8:10 p.m.

TODAY IN HISTORY

• 1907: Start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
• 1914: Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
• 1944: Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1980: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, elected President of Iceland, becomes the first democratically elected female head of state
• 2007: The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

Forecast obtained from the National Weather Service; tide information obtained from saltwatertides.com (calibrated to Long Neck Point); 'Today in History' items compiled from Wikipedia and other sources.