Weather worthy of the summer solstice will continue this week with highs in the 90s and a shot at afternoon thunderstorms each day.

Fairly standard summertime weather continues for the week ahead, though we shouldn’t run quite as hot as we did this past weekend, with no record highs in jeopardy of being toppled this go-around.

Heat and humidity will feature prominently in the forecast this week as a more summertime pattern takes hold.

Meteorological summer begins on Monday, but it isn’t going to feel much like it for a few days with unsettled weather to start and cool high pressure for midweek before temperatures rebound toward 90° by the weekend.

The upcoming week will have an early-summer feel with high pressure remaining in control for the first part of the week before a front stalls out nearby, bringing some rain chances back into the picture heading into the weekend.

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.

One of the driest Aprils on record will come to a somewhat unsettled end this week as the pattern starts to finally flip toward something a little more favorable for rain chances. We’ll run a little cooler, too, especially as we start May.

Dry weather continues for the next few days, but we may start to see the pattern begin to flip this weekend to something a little wetter to close out April.

Increasingly warm and dry weather will be the main story this week as stacked high pressure remains the primary weather driver across the Southeast, including the Lowcountry. Keep the sprinkler systems cued up this week as there’s no rain in sight for at least the next seven days with not a lot of moisture and plenty of sinking air to inhibit shower and thunderstorm development. By the end of the week, we could be approaching the 90s once again, with record highs a possibility.

A cold front coming through overnight Sunday into early Monday morning will send temperatures to a more seasonable place for early April through mid-week, though it’ll be a bit cloudier, too. Shower chances return for the second half of the work week before more sunshine and 80s return for the weekend.