Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Friday, September 15th, 2023, as well as the upcoming weekend.

Cooler and drier air will infiltrate the area throughout the day Friday as high pressure builds in from the north.

This will help to gradually scour out cloud cover and should provide for a very comfortable afternoon with highs topping out in the mid 80s and dew points dropping into the mid 50s.

This will yield relative humidity values below 40%, which should be very nice for getting out and about.

And we’ll keep it rolling into Saturday, which looks like the best day of the set.

We start the day in the low 60s away from the locally warmer coastline and in downtown Charleston, where upper 60s to around 70 degrees look more likely.

Highs should top out in the mid 80s once again with plenty of sunshine to be had.

Mid 50s dew points will once again help to yield relative humidity values below 40% in the afternoon, another really comfortable day.

High pressure slips offshore late Saturday, and with it, southerly flow returns moisture to the area Sunday wears on.

Dew points will climb back through the 60s to around 70 degrees by evening, but highs still look to be reasonable, generally topping out in the mid 80s.

Cloud cover will be on the increase as the cold front approaches us from the west, and the aforementioned front will help spark up a chance for some showers and thunderstorms as we get into Sunday evening.

Not expecting any severe weather though.

Finally a quick look at the tropics, where the situation remains pretty much status quo for the moment anyway.

Lee continues to turn up quite a bit of rough surf and a high surf advisory continues through Friday evening along with a high risk of rip currents.

Rip should last well into the weekend, so keep that in mind if the beach is in your plans.

Margo is, well, not margoing anywhere, meandering in the north Atlantic as it gradually weakens over the next few days.

No concerns for Margo right now as far as any land, and certainly none for the low country.

Finally an area of disturbed weather tagged as InVest 97L by the National Hurricane Center looks likely to be our next depression by this weekend, with the hurricane center giving it a 90% chance to develop in the next two days.

If it does, as models suggest, it’ll get the name Nigel, and it could become a hurricane.

It also overwhelmingly looks to recurve out to sea, though our listeners in Bermuda will want to monitor this storm over the next week, just in case.

And if any of this changes, I’ll let you know, but for now, no tropical worries here at home.

Enjoy the weekend, it’s going to be gorgeous.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for September 15th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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