5 Things You Need to Know Today: June 6

Today is Wednesday, June 6, and here are the five things you need to know:

1. Be prepared for some more wet weather today. The National Weather Service is predicting that local residents can expect scattered showers after noon and a high near 63. Tonight should be mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. (sunrise, 5:06 a.m.; low tide, 7:08 a.m.; high tide, 1:28 p.m.; sunset, 8:18 p.m.)

2. Wonder when that cool new Ice Cream House at is going to open for business? You're not the only one! for the answer to this week's column. 

3. It has been a busy month at the site of Marblehead's new 38,000-square-foot Warwick Place building on Pleasant Street. for a look at some photographs of more than a year's worth of progress.

4. Consider yourself warned! To make way for Grown Ups 2, Lafayette Street will be closed from 10 a.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday and traffic delays are expected. for all the details.

5. Today in History: On June 6, 1944, D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commenced with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

For more things going on in Marblehead today, check out our events calendar.