Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Tuesday, October 24th, 2023.

Tuesday gets off to a chilly start with temperatures in the upper 40s away from the locally warmer coastline.

Highs top out in the mid 70s once again under mostly sunny skies, and from there, a warming trend will commence.

Wednesday starts out almost 10 degrees warmer, generally the upper 50s, before warming to near 80 degrees in the afternoon.

We should crack 80 degrees for highs each day starting Thursday, with above normal temperatures persisting into the weekend and likely into early next week as well.

There is no rain in sight either, dry high pressure remains in control for at least the next several days.

We may begin to contend with some minor coastal flooding possibly as early as Tuesday evening, but it looks a little more likely heading into Wednesday and beyond as onshore flow and the upcoming full moon combine to drive water levels up.

Right now, it doesn’t look like there’s going to be much in the way of severe flooding from this round, but there will be periods where some saltwater will show up on vulnerable roads.

Keep an ear out for coastal flood advisories from the National Weather Service, as those will let you know when the risk for saltwater flooding will be highest.

In the tropics, we now have two active tropical cyclones.

The first, Hurricane Tammy, is moving north-northeast into the Atlantic as a Category 1 hurricane.

The second, Tropical Depression 21, formed off the coast of Nicaragua today, and will make landfall there in fairly short order.

As a result, 21 is not long for this world, and actually should not get a name.

Now, Tammy is expected to strengthen a little bit more before conditions become more hostile beginning Wednesday.

It should make extra-tropical transition by Thursday as shear increases over the system and it interacts with the trough.

And then from there, it’ll make a more westward turn, perhaps bringing some rough weather to Bermuda over the weekend.

It’s hard to say what Tammy will do beyond that.

There’s a decent split between solutions that turn Tammy back sharply to the east and out to sea, while others keep Tammy moving westward towards the east coast.

We’ll see how this plays out, but for now, there remains nothing to get too concerned over, and I suspect that’ll remain the state of play going forward.

As always, we’ll keep an eye on Tammy and really anything else that tries to form out there.

Got about six weeks left in hurricane season?

Hang in there, we’re almost done.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for October 24, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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