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Weekend forecast: Staying on the stormy side

/ August 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Cooler-than-normal temperatures continue this weekend, but the cost is continued rounds of showers and thunderstorms as moisture overruns a stationary front to the south and a trough of low pressure develops aloft.

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Friday & the weekend: Below-normal temperatures with unsettled periods continue

/ August 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Weather forecast for Charleston from August 8 to 10. On Friday, expect scattered thunderstorms in the evening with a high of 85°F and a low of 72°F. Saturday will have PM storms expected, with temperatures reaching 85°F during the day and dropping to 72°F at night. Sunday will also see PM storms, with a high of 84°F and a low of 73°F. The graphic was created on August 25 at 6:17 PM, with data sourced from the National Weather Service.

After an unusually cool and cloudy early-August day across the Lowcountry, in which highs largely did not breach 80° (good for a new record cool high temperature at North Charleston, breaking the record of 80° set just last year), we should see a bit more warmer air tomorrow as the high pressure wedge which reasserted itself today weakens a bit toward the coast. This will allow the seabreeze to get going a bit more, setting us up for an afternoon of scattered storms, with the best risk of precipitation generally east of 17-A. Lows in the low 70s will warm to the mid-80s in the afternoon — still several degrees below normal for this point in August — but it’ll still be somewhat muggy.

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