Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, with a peek ahead at the rest of the workweek.

Unfortunately, the wildfire smoke that has marred the past otherwise couple great weather days looks to persist for a third day on Wednesday.

Haze will be evident once again in the sky, and there is a chance that there could be some air quality impacts as well, so if you’ve got sensitivity to smoke or other particulate matter, you may want to spend more time indoors on Wednesday.

Otherwise, the weather is quiet, expect another day of partly cloudy skies.

Temperatures start in the low 60s and warm to the low 80s in the afternoon.

The only other issue to watch is the potential for minor flooding with a midday high tide, but this should do it for this long stretch of coastal flooding at times of high tide.

We start to see a little more moisture work into the area for Thursday and Friday.

This will generally result in an uptick in cloud cover, with a slight chance of a shower or storm Friday afternoon.

Temperatures will start a little warmer, mid 60s versus low 60s, and highs will still top out generally in the low to mid 80s each afternoon.

A front will get by on Saturday, and this will introduce quite a shot of fall-like air starting Sunday morning.

So get the hoodies ready, you’re going to need them.

Meanwhile, Philippe continues to do its thing in the tropics, continuing to bring some heavy rain and gusty winds to the northern Leeward Islands.

It will depart on Wednesday, drifting northwest to northward for a couple days before accelerating towards Nova Scotia and maybe even New England over the weekend, losing its tropical characteristics in the process.

There remains no threat to the Lowcountry from Philippe, or anything else in the tropics for that matter.

And finally, a quick heads up that FEMA will be issuing a national test of the emergency alert system around 2.20pm on Wednesday.

This will include activating wireless emergency alerts, which means your phones will probably collectively lose their mind around this time.

Fear not, though, as it is strictly a test, and there are no foreseeable weather-related issues in the Lowcountry on Wednesday that would necessitate one of these types of alerts.

Now, it is worth noting that if you or a loved one are in a situation where a second concealed phone is necessary for safety, be sure that phone is switched off before the test time and stays off until circumstances are safe enough to turn the phone back on.

The emergency alert test is scheduled to retransmit for 30 minutes after the initial test is sent to ensure maximum coverage, so just be safe in that situation, if you don’t want anybody else to know that you have the phone, turn it on when you know you’re going to be alone.

And beyond that, that should do it for wireless emergency alert tests for at least a couple more years.

The next federally mandated test will probably take place sometime in 2026, but it could be sooner.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for October 4th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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