On Wednesday, Be Ready For Thunderstorms

Editor's note: Welcome to Morning Briefing, where each weekday at 6 a.m. we'll tell you what you need to know to get you through your day—and on Fridays, the weekend, too.

Lower Merion High School's girls basketball team its Tuesday night state playoff game to advance to the state quarterfinals. Tonight, the boys play at 6 p.m. in Reading.

Weather

• Rain is in the National Weather Service forecast through mid-afternoon, including possible thunderstorms. Temperatures should reach the upper 50s, but there is an 80 percent chance of precipitation. The overnight low should stay in the low 40s.

Schools

• Lower Merion and Harriton High School students have altered schedules today and tomorrow because of standardized testing. Click here for Lower Merion's and here for Harriton's.

Crime

• Lower Merion police are searching for the man who tried to rob the Bala Cynwyd 7-Eleven at gunpoint Saturday morning. He is described as a black man between ages 40 and 50, weighing 180 to 200 pounds and standing between 5 feet 7 inches and 6 feet tall. He wore a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark knit cap, navy blue work jacket and dark pants.

Utilities

• PECO reported between five and 50 power outages overnight in Montgomery County.

The roads

• If you see a pothole that needs to be fixed, call the township's pothole hotline at 610-645-4782.

SEPTA transit

• Thorndale Line: Check the new timetable that began over the weekend
• Cynwyd Line: Check the new timetable that began over the weekend
• Route 44: No problems reported
• Route 52: No problems reported
• Route 65: No problems reported
• Route 103: No problems reported
• Route 105: No problems reported
• Route 106: No problems reported
• Route 115: No problems reported
• Route G: No problems reported

Trash/recycling pickup

• Both Lower Merion and Narberth are picking up trash and recycling on a normal schedule today.