5 Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 2

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1. Your weather report: Today will keep up the trend of isolated thunderstorms in our area, with a high of 87 degrees. Tonight will be partly cloudy with an overnight low of 67 degrees. Tomorrow should be mostly sunny.

2. YOU WANT KITTIES!  Humane Society for Greater Nashua currently has at least 10 kittens ready for adoption todayand waiting for their new families to come take them home! In addition, there are another 60 kitties currently in foster care waiting to be old enough (for their immune systems to kick in) to come into the shelter.

3. Patch Fact: Japanese women live longer than anyone else, with an average lifespan of 86 years -- and they're only about 58.87 inches (149.54 centimeters) tall when they're in their late 70s.

4. Watch the London 2012 Olympics YOUR way. Lifehacker has a handy guide on how to watch the Olympics coverage live without a cable subscription through NBC. It also has other tips to customize your Olympics watching experience.

5. Congrats! Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Nicholas Kepka Calvetti of Amherst, N.H., a freshman, was named to the university's Dean's List for academic excellence for the spring 2012 semester. A total of 1,286 undergraduate students achieved the criteria required for WPI's spring 2012 Dean's List. The criteria for the WPI Dean's List differ from that of most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average (GPA). Instead, WPI defines the Dean's List by the amount of work completed at the A level in courses and projects.