A cold front will swing through early Thursday with high pressure to build in behind it. Temperatures will start in the low 60s, warming to the low-to-mid-80s in the afternoon with northwesterly winds around 10 MPH. The downslope flow will dry out the atmosphere pretty nicely, allowing for mostly sunny skies with maybe a few fair weather clouds. The drier air will make the 80s highs feel a little more comfortable, too. Overall, it’s a good day to try to get some sunshine in the midst of the daily grind.
Generally quiet weather will be the rule for the rest of the work week as dry high pressure builds in from the northwest, keeping temperatures near mid-May norms.
High pressure nudging in from the north will keep cloud cover in place and cool us off a bit for Tuesday after the third 90° day of the year on Monday. We’ll start the day in the upper 50s, warming to about the mid-70s given the expected cloud cover. A shower could get close to far southern Charleston County during the day, but most of us should stay rain-free.
I hope all of you out there who celebrated Mother’s Day today had a wonderful day. It ended up being a pretty good weekend weather-wise, with much of the moisture staying suppressed to the south. Monday, however, will bring more substantial rain chances as a cold front pushes south and eastward. We should stay quiet through the morning, though by early afternoon we should start to see showers and a few thunderstorms develop, first along the seabreeze and then becoming more widespread as the front moves by later in the day into the evening. There’s a risk for one or two thunderstorms to become severe, with damaging wind gusts the main concern, though widespread severe weather is not expected. We could see some brief periods of heavy rain, but with relatively quick storm motions expected, they won’t be hanging around long enough to cause any flooding issues. Temperatures will run on the warm side of normal for mid-May, with highs potentially reaching the upper 80s before thunderstorms kick in.
Showers and a few thunderstorms return to the weather picture this weekend as disturbances aloft ripple across the area. The good news is that it won’t rain all the time and that whatever rain we will get will help with the ongoing severe drought.
We’re back in the saddle here at @chswx HQ and looking at a quiet Friday before conditions turn unsettled once again this weekend as the front that’s helped to bring us today’s rain starts to wobble back northward.
