After reaching a lovely 70° on Valentine’s Day, we will climb even higher into the 70s for Wednesday as southerly flow on the back side of high pressure and ridging aloft turns the heat pump up. We’ll see a little more in the way of cloud cover, but still expect plenty of sunshine.

Thursday turns even warmer as a cold front gets closer and compressional heating starts to come into play a bit more. Expect highs to top out in the low 80s with a mix of sun and clouds. Incredibly, this will not even be close to a record — the record high of 87°, set in 1989, looks to remain solidly intact.

Rain returns to the weather picture on Friday, though unlike the last few weeks, it won’t hang around for the weekend. Expect highs to top out early in the day around 72° before the front and its associated showers arrive in the area. Said front cools us off below normal for Saturday before a little rebound in temperatures for Sunday, but the operative thing here is that the sun will be out for both days this time — quite a rare occurrence lately.

Mother Nature’s Valentine’s Day gift to Charleston is beautiful weather as high pressure remains in control. We’ll start Tuesday in the low 40s before temperatures rebound to around 70° under mostly sunny skies. Dewpoints will run in the low-to-mid-40s, yielding comfortable relative humidity values — overall, should be a nice day to enjoy some lunch outdoors. The only fly in the ointment may be the winds shifting to the south around 10-15 MPH at times. Other than that, though, no cold shoulder this year.

We turn much warmer Wednesday into Thursday as southerly winds continue ahead of a cold front which arrives Friday. Temperatures will jump to around 80° on Wednesday and could exceed 80° on Thursday despite increasing cloud cover. While we could get within striking distance of Wednesday’s record high of 82° set in 1989, we’ll be a far cry from Thursday’s daily record which is 87°, also set in 1989.

A cold front and associated band of showers moves through the area on Friday, limiting highs to the low 70s early in the day and cooling us off pretty quickly in the evening. The good news is that this rain won’t linger — the sun will be back out on Saturday, and a rain-free (albeit much cooler) weekend is expected.

We stay in the 70s for the rest of the work week ahead of a storm system that will cool us back off for the weekend. Cloud cover increases Wednesday, but that won’t stop temperatures from heading even warmer than they did Tuesday with highs expected in the mid-70s. Thursday should represent the peak of the warmth, with solid mid-70s expected across the area ahead of the storm system. Showers look to begin late Thursday and will last into Saturday morning, with the main rain event on Friday. Highs will still top out in the low 70s on Friday after starting the day in the low 60s — closer to the average high for February 10 as opposed to the average low. Once the front is through later Friday/early Saturday, temperatures will head back to a little below normal for the weekend.

No major weather concerns to write home about for Tuesday. There may be some patches of fog in the morning, but nothing too heinous or concerning (though if you do run into fog, make sure you’re using your low beams and keeping some extra following distance). Otherwise, temperatures around 40° will rise into the upper 60s to around 70° in the afternoon under partly cloudy skies, making for a nice day across the Lowcountry.

After a soggy couple days, we get a respite from some of the rain on Wednesday as we sit between storm systems and high pressure sinks south across the area. Fog may be an issue in the morning once again, so be ready with the low beams and a little extra time to get where you’re going. Temperatures should peak in the low 70s in the afternoon before cooler high pressure and an associated wedge front press southward across the area later in the day. It remains to be seen just how far south the wedge can get, but expect it to help cool temperatures to around 50° in the morning on Thursday.

I’d consider mid-60s to be a best-case scenario for temperatures on Thursday as it will be highly dependent on the position of the wedge front. It is expected to lift a little more northward as a warm front during the day Thursday with shower chances throughout the day. However, rain chances tick up later in the day into the overnight, and the rain falling into the cool wedge should strengthen it and allow it to sink back into the Lowcountry by evening. We stay wedged in Friday as showers move across the area for a majority of the day ahead of a storm system. It’ll be chilly on Friday, with lows in the upper 40s giving way to highs in the mid-50s at best with rain blanketing the area as low pressure traverses the Gulf Coast and moves across the Florida panhandle, staying south of us and keeping us in the cool sector.

Chilly weather continues into Saturday, though with a much-needed shot of sunshine before another storm system begins to affect the area on Sunday. For now, though, keep the rain gear nearby!

Wednesday could be a busy weather day here in the Lowcountry as a very dynamic storm system moves into the eastern half of the continental US, dragging a cold front through the Southeast throughout the day with showers and thunderstorms ahead of it.

There’s not too much to write home about in the weather department for Tuesday. We’ll get off to a near-freezing start in the metro area, with temperatures dipping below 32° further inland as well as in more rural spots. Plenty of sunshine, though, will help drive temperatures to around 60° in the afternoon. Overall, a bright, brilliant late January day.

Temperatures look to stay well on the warm side of normal heading into the weekend, especially Wednesday and Thursday before a front late Thursday brings temperatures back down a little bit.

The rest of the work week will be punctuated with a warming trend through Thursday before a cold front knocks temperatures down slightly for Friday. There will be a few shower chances, but mostly after dark.

The rest of the work week will feature a quick warmup (with a brief return to the 70s on Thursday) before a cold front brings temperatures back down to earth for Friday and the weekend.