Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Friday, September 22nd, 2023 and the upcoming weekend.

A coastal low, now known as potential tropical cyclone 16 as it is likely to become a tropical storm, probably named Ophelia, before landfall in North Carolina this weekend, will continue to spread some showers and gusty winds across the area on Friday as it moves northward well off our coast.

The worst weather will be found generally along the coast, where winds should gust upwards of 30 mph.

Rough surf is expected, and there will be a high risk of rip currents as well, and the potential for some coastal flooding around the 145 pm high tide.

It looks to generally be on the minor side, but we could still see some problems in the most vulnerable locations in downtown Charleston, like around Gadsden Creek, on Lockwood Drive, places like that.

Highs on Friday top out around 80-81 degrees thanks to the cloud cover and occasional showers in the area.

Slow improvement begins Saturday as the winds begin to back off a little, though they’ll still be gusty at times.

We’ll also keep a fair bit of cloud cover in the area as well for the time being.

We start Saturday a little cooler though, lows will tend to bottom out in the low 60s, while highs will top out around 80 degrees once again.

Cloud cover should slowly diminish with time, and we should see some decent breaks in the cloud canopy by evening.

Sunday is the pick day of the weekend.

We start once again in the low 60s, but will warm to the mid 80s under mostly sunny skies.

Winds will have died down much more too, as maybe Ophelia moves by the Delmarva Peninsula.

Overall, Sunday is going to be a fantastic way to cap out the weekend, and I hope you can get out and enjoy it a little bit.

Elsewhere in the tropics, we’re close to bidding adieu to Hurricane Nigel as it makes exotropical transition in the north-central Atlantic.

The other area of note is the disturbance tagged as InVEST-90L, churning west to the Cabo Verde Islands through the eastern Atlantic.

It is probably going to be the Atlantic Basin’s next depression, with an 80% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next week.

It’s a long, long way from us still, and there’s plenty of time to watch it.

Early indications are that this storm is going to be another recurvature candidate, but we’ll keep an eye on it to make sure it stays true to its word.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for September 22, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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