Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Wednesday, July 12th, 2023.

Our mid-week run of quiet weather continues for Wednesday, as somewhat drier air than normal hangs around the Carolinas for another day or so.

We’ll start the day in the low 70s once again, and highs will warm to the low 90s under mostly sunny skies.

Surface dewpoints in the low 70s will yield heat indices generally in the upper 90s, really not too terrible given the fact that it’s mid-July.

Showers, much less thunderstorms, will be tough to come by given the fairly dry air above 10,000 feet or so.

That dry air is why we’ve had a pretty brilliant blue sky for the last couple days, not as much haze, not as much humidity, it’s been very nice.

Thursday runs a touch warmer and a little cloudier, but overall we should stay mostly quiet once again in the afternoon, though a stray shower or two can’t be totally ruled out as precipitable water values start to creep back up a little bit.

Highs top out in the low 90s once again, and heat indices will run about 100-101 or so.

Dewpoints will continue to head back up a little bit more on Friday, and the combination of an upper disturbance swinging by and a continued increase in deep layer moisture in the atmosphere could instigate more in the way of afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms than we’ve seen in the past couple days.

Expect highs in the mid-90s, with heat indices running close to 105 degrees or even a little bit higher.

We’re going to keep this return to more of the oppressive heat and humidity that we are typically attuned to in July going into the weekend, with mid-90s highs and mid-70s dewpoints sending heat indices back above 105 degrees before scattered afternoon thunderstorms fire and cool at least some of us off.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for July 12th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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Thanks for listening, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.