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.
Monday looks a good bit like Sunday did, though it’ll start a bit warmer with lows in the upper 50s. Temperatures head to the low 80s in the afternoon under partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies. We’ll do this again Tuesday, with highs peaking a little warmer — generally in the mid-80s. The warming trend remains gradual through Thursday before things turn much warmer Friday, when we’re most likely to challenge record highs. Temperatures should head into the 90s as high pressure builds in briefly from the west. Friday’s record high is 91° set in 1967, and it will certainly be in reach.
High pressure moves back into the Atlantic for the weekend, with an uptick in cloud cover on Sunday helping to keep highs a little cooler ahead of what should be a storm system for early next week. Wait and see, though, as severe drought continues to expand across the Lowcountry…