Hello everyone, Jarrett Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Friday, September 29th, 2023 and the upcoming weekend.

We should see a little more in the way of sunshine on Friday after a cool and cloudy Thursday thanks to drier air gradually working into the area and scouring out some of that persistent cloud cover the past couple days.

It should end up as a pretty nice day with highs topping out in the low 80s in the afternoon after a mid-60s start.

The only thing we’re going to need to really worry about is saltwater on the roads at the times of high tide, including one smack dab in the middle of the commute.

A coastal flood advisory will be in effect from 6-10am as water levels should reach about moderate flood stage with the 8.35am high tide.

Another round of moderate flooding is expected with the 8.51pm high tide as well, so we’ll likely see another coastal flood advisory for Friday evening.

And we’re going to keep all of these vibes, partly cloudy, kind of warm, coastal flooding, heading into the weekend.

Saturday is going to be the warmest of the set as mid-80s appear possible before some cooler air moves back in on Sunday and that’ll send highs back down to the low 80s under partly cloudy skies.

Coastal flooding will remain an issue with the morning and evening high tides, with the morning high tide generally running as the higher of the two.

As a result, more coastal flood advisories certainly look likely over the weekend, so keep an ear out for those so you know when it might get difficult to travel downtown.

In the tropics, Rina has joined the party as Tropical Storm Philippe barely hangs on.

Rina and Philippe may interact some, which could keep both storms sheared and a little bit weaker.

In the case of Philippe, Rina’s interaction has also thrown a little bit of chaos into the short-term track forecast as well, really slowing it down and sending it southwest before it’s turned sharply northward as we get through the rest of the weekend in response to high pressure building into the north.

Rina’s track forecast looks generally a little bit more traditional on the map as it moves west-northwest before making that same northward turn that’s expected out of Philippe, thanks to that high pressure system building in to its northeast.

And there are no other highlighted areas of concern right now, and nothing that’s a threat to the Lowcountry.

So we’ll take the winds where we can get them.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for September 29th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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