Our stretch of early-March warmth continues for Friday and the weekend — and, realistically, well into next week — as stacked high pressure remains in place.

Generally quiet and rather warm weather continues for the rest of the work week. Wednesday morning will likely get off to a foggy start, with dense fog potentially reducing visibility to less than a quarter-mile at times. Use low beams and plenty of following distance in case you do encounter fog. Fog should erode by mid-morning, and we’ll head into the mid-70s under mostly sunny skies in the afternoon.

High pressure wedging down from the northeast overnight will set up a cool and mostly cloudy Monday across the Lowcountry — another dip on the temperature rollercoaster after an already up-and-down weekend. Temperatures start in the upper 40s with some fog possible (especially near the coast, where sea fog has been an issue), but the persistent northeast breeze and cloud cover courtesy of some moisture overrunning the wedge will keep temperatures pinned to the low 60s in the afternoon.

Showers have arrived in the Lowcountry and will be hanging around through much of Friday into early Saturday as a cold front lumbers through the area. We certainly could use the rain as severe drought continues over the Lowcountry, and 1-1.5″ of rain should fall in most spots through Saturday morning.

Lows on Friday will run on the warm side of normal; expect generally mid-50s across the area, while highs peak near normal in the mid-60s.

Showers return to the area on Thursday as energy aloft moves across the region ahead of a slow-moving cold front. The best chance for rain will arrive later in the day, and will stick with us into Friday. Temperatures Thursday start on a much more mild note — generally expect lows to fall to the low 50s in the morning, with highs peaking in the upper 60s in the afternoon.

Our cold snap continues Tuesday as lows bottom out in the mid-20s in the morning. Winds will remain a touch elevated with the lingering pressure gradient between the high to our west and the nor’easter pulling away from New England, so wind chills will be a factor, perhaps briefly dipping into the teens (but not long enough for a Cold Weather Advisory, per NWS). Temperatures will run a few degrees warmer than they did on Monday, but that’s not saying much as Monday’s high only peaked around 48°. We can at least expect another day of mostly sunny skies with the cool and dry airmass still in place. Temperatures turn back up starting Wednesday as a cold front approaches the area; we should be in the 70s again by Thursday, and shower chances return for Friday.

Winter makes a brief return to the Lowcountry to start the final week of February, but temperatures look to rebound for the second half of the week, albeit with some shower chances.

Our run of warm temperatures, which peaked Friday with a record-tying high of 82° at the airport, will be coming to an end this weekend as a storm system affects the area.

The warm spell peaks on Friday before a cold front affects the area over the weekend. The first 80° day of 2026 is not out of the question on Friday, though a scattering of showers will potentially put a damper on that possibility, especially heading into the afternoon. Like the past couple days, another breezy day looks to be on tap as well, with winds gusting 25-30 MPH at times as the heating of the day helps tap into somewhat stronger winds aloft. As for showers, they aren’t out of the question really at any point in the day, though coverage should increase a bit getting later into the afternoon as the cold front stalls out across the Upstate and Midlands. Not expecting too much in the way of rainfall amounts on Friday, though some brief downpours aren’t out of the question, especially inland from the coast where a little more instability may exist.

We’ll see more in the way of cloud cover and maybe even a few showers on Thursday, but that won’t stop temperatures from getting back to the mid-70s after a warm-for-February start in the mid-50s. Deep southwesterly flow will continue to pump warm and moist air into the area, and as temperatures warm into the 70s, this could spawn a few popup showers (not something we often say in February!) along with gusts around 20-25 MPH.