High pressure continues to gradually lose its grip on our weather over the weekend as the next storm system approaches the area. We do get a rain-free day in on Saturday, though, with a mild but mostly cloudy day. We start Saturday in the mid-to-upper 50s, warming to the upper 70s in the afternoon. Southerly winds will generally run around 5-10 MPH.
Shower chances increase for Sunday as some mid-level energy aloft moves its way into the area ahead of the approaching cold front, stirring up some scattered showers and maybe some thunderstorms at times perhaps throughout the day. It won’t be a washout, but you’ll want to keep an eye on the sky as some rain and thunder will be possible from time to time. It’ll be a rather warm day, with lows around 60° warming to the low 80s in the afternoon.
High pressure will be in control this weekend, yielding a beautiful couple days of weather across the Lowcountry. Saturday gets off to a slightly chilly start, with lows in the low 40s feeling a touch cooler with a little wind, but we’ll warm well into the mid-70s in the afternoon with lots and lots of sunshine. Dewpoints in the 30s will drive relative humidity values down to around 25%, making it feel fairly dry outside. The only fly in the ointment here will be a bit of an uptick in winds in the afternoon and evening hours, generally 10-15 MPH but with some higher gusts. This combined with the dry weather will lead to an increased fire danger, so please be careful if you must burn outdoors (and ideally just don’t do so).
Winds swing around a bit more southerly for Sunday, which will nudge dewpoints up into the 40s. It’ll still feel quite great outside, though, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s warming back to the mid-70s in the afternoon under predominantly sunny skies once more. The slightly warmer dewpoints should bring the fire risk down a touch for Sunday, too. All in all, a really nice weekend lies ahead, and I hope you can take advantage. (Too bad about all the pollen, though.)
The next rain chance arrives with a front on Monday, but it’ll be short-lived, with quiet weather expected the rest of next week.
Breezy conditions continue this weekend ahead of a strong storm system that’s working its way across the midsection of the country over the next day or so, which could bring some strong storms to the area on Sunday.
The weekend’s forecast will revolve around a cold front that’ll backdoor into the area, bringing very different weather each day. Ahead of that front, it’s going to turn much warmer — expect to start Saturday near 50°, warming to near 80° in the afternoon under partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies. As the front gets closer, we will start to see cloud cover tick up, with rain chances following early Sunday morning — quite possibly after we all spring forward an hour back into Daylight Saving Time. The front will cross through the area Sunday morning, and cooler air filtering in behind it will keep high temperatures 15-20° cooler than Saturday. We should see primarily cloud cover and periods of showers and maybe even a few thunderstorms as the front stalls to our south. There’s some disagreement in the models over just how wet of a Sunday we might have, so don’t totally write it off as a washout. However, it’s pretty clear that Saturday will be the pick day for outdoor activities with more sunshine and warmer temperatures.
Climatological winter has come to an end, and the first day of climatological spring will certainly feel the part. We’ll start the day in the mid-to-upper 40s, warming solidly into the mid-70s in the afternoon with just a few clouds expected.
A front swings through overnight Saturday, sending temperatures much cooler for Sunday. We’ll start Sunday a bit more on the cloudy side; expect lows to fall into the upper 30s with cooler air blowing in behind the front. Cold high pressure building in will help clear skies out, but it will also drive highs down some 20° cooler than Saturday — think mid-50s vs. mid-70s. Quite a shock!
The main issue we’ll need to watch for is elevated fire danger due to dry fuels and breezy conditions. Gusts over 20 MPH could help a seemingly benign fire spread more than you might think, so please be careful if you must burn.
Finally, the start of climatological spring also signals the beginning of the 2025 growing season, which means that frost and freeze alerts will once again be issued by the National Weather Service in the event temperatures fall to those levels.
It was an incredibly warm February day in the Lowcountry, skipping ahead from a spring preview to an early summer preview as the high topped out around 84° at the airport. This high temperature obliterated the old daily record of 80° set in 2019, and was 22° above normal for February 7.
Record warmth will remain possible this weekend, especially on Sunday, before temperatures moderate (but remain above normal) as the pattern turns a little more unsettled for next week.
This weekend’s weather is looking pretty good in the wake of a front that will move by early Saturday. A few showers are possible late Friday into early Saturday, but they will clear the area well before sunrise.
With the front out of the way, we’ve got a nice day ahead on Saturday as lows around 50° warm to the upper 60s to around 70° in the afternoon with just a few clouds at times. Breezy conditions on Friday night will calm down by Saturday, too.
We’ll run a little cooler on Sunday as high pressure wedges into the area from the north, but we’ll still be well above normal for this point in the year. Expect mid-40s lows to warm to the mid-to-upper 60s in the afternoon with generally partly cloudy skies expected.
We’ll turn even warmer next week, with some of the warmest weather so far this year expected as highs soar well into the 70s across much of the area with no rain chances expected — a very, very far cry from how January went, which looks like it will go down as the coldest on average since 1988!
Snowmelt will accelerate this weekend with warmer temperatures and more sunshine each afternoon. We will still deal with freezing temperatures each morning, though, which brings the specter of black ice back to the forecast for a couple more days. Saturday morning looks particularly frigid, with clear skies, calm winds, and existing snowpack contributing to temperatures falling into the low 20s. Winds go southwesterly during the day Saturday, though, and temperatures will head to around 50° in the afternoon. With mostly sunny skies expected, we should get another solid day of melting.
Whatever’s left of the snowpack on Saturday probably won’t make it too far past Sunday. We start Sunday in the upper 20s, but once we head above freezing on Sunday morning, we’ll stay above for the foreseeable future. Temperatures will head to the mid-50s in the afternoon with a few more clouds in the mix. Despite a few more clouds, melting will continue apace. And with lows not expected to get below freezing overnight Sunday into Monday morning, the risk for black ice will come to an end.
The warming trend continues next week, especially starting Tuesday as highs return to the 60s for a few days for mid-week — a far cry from where we’ve been, that’s for sure!
We have a rainy day on tap for Saturday as a complex storm system sweeps across the eastern half of the country. We’ll start the day in the upper 30s to around 40°, but warm to around 60° in the afternoon as warm, humid air moves in ahead of the storm system’s cold front. We’ll stay in the rain for a fair bit of the day after daybreak, though there will be breaks at times as well.
Showers depart early in the day on Sunday, which will be the warmest day in the forecastable future as highs top out in the mid-60s ahead of the cold front. Said front should swing through by evening, and we’ll start to see a sharp change in the airmass after that as Arctic air spills into the region from the northwest. Lows on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day bottom out in the upper 20s, heading to only the low 40s despite plenty of sunshine.
After a day in which we received a trace of snow at the airport for the first time since the January 2018 winter storm, we will dry out on Saturday with low pressure moving away from the area. We start the day with showers tapering off in the early morning; these should be gone by mid-morning, though. Lows will bottom out in the 30s overnight but we’ll be warming up as the night goes on, and we should wake up to temperatures in the 40s Saturday morning. As low pressure departs, so does the cloud cover, and we should end up with a good bit of sunshine before it’s all said and done. Expect highs to reach around 50-51° or so — you’ll definitely still want the jackets.
Sunday starts out in frigid fashion once again with lows in the mid-20s expected. Highs will only reach about 50° despite plenty of sunshine as northerly winds continue to keep the airmass a little on the chilly side. The good news is that we should be largely dried out before Sunday morning’s freeze, so I’m currently not anticipating any traffic concerns. Stay warm and enjoy the weekend!
