This weekend is looking mostly quiet (weather-wise, anyway). Expect standard mid-June fare across the Lowcountry with highs topping out around 90° each afternoon. Saturday will feel a little drier than we’d normally feel at this point in the year, in fact, with dewpoints mixing out to around 60° in the afternoon. We may see an isolated storm later in the evening, but the vast majority of us stay dry.

It stays mostly that way for Sunday, though we’ll feel a little more in the way of humidity with winds turning more onshore. Once again, a stray afternoon storm is possible, but overall we look to get much of the day in rain-free. Expect highs to once again top out around 90°, with heat indices in the low 90s.

Tropical update: Cabo Verde disturbance could become a tropical cyclone…in mid-June

A disturbance near the Cabo Verde Islands is likely to become a tropical cyclone by the middle of next week. Now, you’ll be forgiven if you thought this was a post from, say, August — but, in fact, it is mid-June and we’re already looking way into the eastern Atlantic for possible tropical development. Fact of the matter is that the Atlantic is already really, really warm with temperatures running several degrees above normal for this point in the year, which will allow this to get going as a result. It’s early days, but the current pattern thus far with the trough in the east suggests this will recurve into the Atlantic. We’ll keep an eye on it, though. If/when it develops and attains tropical storm strength, it will be named Bret.

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