Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Monday, July 24th, 2023, as well as a look at the week ahead.

After a very soggy Sunday, and we’ll get back to that in a minute, we return to more normal late July conditions across the low country with mild starts in the mid 70s, followed by warm and muggy afternoons in the low 90s with isolated to scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms along and ahead of the sea breeze.

We’ll see an overall drying trend within the atmosphere as precipitable water values drop from around 1.8 inches on Monday morning to close to an inch by mid-week.

This will have a gradually more deleterious effect on the coverage of showers and thunderstorms as the week goes on.

Monday in fact could be the most convectively active day this week as a little lingering energy hangs on, and with the aforementioned precipitable water values around 1.8 inches, we could still see a few more heavy downpours if storms can survive gradually drying air aloft.

Highs top out in the low 90s, but with dew points in the low to mid 70s, expect heat indices topping out around 97 or 98 degrees.

Could see a couple hundred degree readings in spots closer to the coast too.

From there we get progressively drier, with only a slight chance of an afternoon and evening thunderstorm through the rest of the week.

Ridging then strengthens some more as we head into the weekend, and we could find ourselves back in the mid 90s by Saturday and maybe even the upper 90s on Sunday, with heat indices heading back north of 105 degrees.

So stay tuned to updates on the potential recurrence of that nasty heat as we get into the upcoming weekend.

Finally a quick recap of the Sunday soaker that was.

It was a record breaking rainfall day at Charleston International Airport, with 3.66 inches of rain as of this recording, solidly demolishing the record of 2.54 inches set in 1941.

Some lighter rain was falling as I record this late Sunday night, so we could see that rain total tick up another hundredth of an inch or two.

Elsewhere, stations around Park Circle and Hanahan recorded an upwards of 6 inches of rain in some spots, as convection essentially anchored in that area for a few hours on Sunday afternoon.

3 to 4 inch storm totals could be found well into Berkeley County as well, with one station in the Goose Creek area topping out at 4.88 inches.

The winner though, if you could call them that, was a Park Circle weather station that recorded 6.28 inches of rain, much of it falling in just a few hours time.

This caused flooding around Quarterman Park as well as within the East Montague Business District.

But thankfully, we should not see a repeat on Monday.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for July 24th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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