Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Friday, August 18th, 2023, and a look at the last weekend before school starts.

Friday looks to be a rain-free day across the areas, drier air and ridging build into the area aloft.

We start the day in the mid-70s, while air temperatures will head to the low 90s in the afternoon with plenty of sunshine thanks to limited cloud cover.

Drier air should mix down with peak heating in the afternoon, and this should help keep heat indices reasonably in check, though they’ll still run in the mid to upper 90s.

But hey, at least it’s not 110.

Shower and storm chances return to the forecast starting Saturday as a little more moisture moves in and waves along a stalled front move by.

Temperatures will run in the low to mid 90s once again, and with surface dew points back in the mid-70s, expect heat indices to head slightly north of 100 degrees.

Still not as bad as we’ve recently experienced, but not great either.

Storms should be generally short-lived, though they could produce some decent downpours in a few spots.

Weather forecasts sounding suggest a damaging wind gust or two is not totally out of the question, but the severe weather risk is very low overall.

Sunday runs a little cooler, air temperature-wise anyway, as winds turn a little more onshore.

Highs will top out in the upper 80s to around 90, but mid-70s dew points will continue to yield heat indices approaching 100 degrees.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be embedded in the onshore flow, and there will be a risk for a storm for much of the day.

However, it won’t rain all day at any one location either, indeed very much not a washout.

So yes, not the perfect last weekend before school starts, but you should have plenty of time to get outside anyway.

Just be ready to head inside at times if showers and thunderstorms approach your location.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for August 18th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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