Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Monday, November 20th, 2023, and the week ahead, including Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and all the other days that we’ve invented after that.

We’ll get this abbreviated Thanksgiving work week off to a warm and unsettled start ahead of a cold front that gets through mid-week.

Monday will start near 60 degrees and warm to the low 70s in the afternoon.

We should get much of Monday in rain-free, though dew points will increase across the combined with a little bit of a trough trying to get started offshore, will add some cloud cover and could send some showers our direction, beginning mainly after sunset, particularly closer to the coast.

From there, we watch as a cold front approaches from the west.

Temperatures will run even warmer on Tuesday, think mid-70s, as we find ourselves in a decent warm sector ahead of the storm system.

Shower chances will steadily increase throughout the day, peaking overnight into early Wednesday morning.

We could even hear some rumbles of thunder at times as a tiny bit of instability could develop.

Wind shear looks good too, but the instability will likely be the limiting factor for anything too out of hand to get going, so a severe threat currently isn’t really a concern.

We’ll keep an eye on things, of course, in case that changes.

We should see showers taper off Wednesday as the cold front gets by at some point during the day.

Exact timing on the frontal passage is yet to be really nailed down, as one would expect this far out.

We’ll start out quite warm again, with low 60s expected, followed by highs in the low 70s.

But once that front gets through, drier air will begin to move into the area, and by Thanksgiving, temperatures will be much closer to mid-to-late November norms, with lows in the mid-40s yielding to highs in the mid-60s in the afternoon under partly cloudy skies, looking great for Thanksgiving Day.

Another disturbance will swing on by for Black Friday, and that’ll stir up some more showers at times, but nothing too out of bounds.

Temperatures once again will run in the upper 40s in the morning with mid-to-upper 60s in the afternoon, and then high pressure will build back in for the weekend, slowly scouring out cloud cover and keeping temperatures seasonably cool in the mid-60s each afternoon.

Finally, a quick tropical update.

There’s one spot in the tropics that the Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on, but the risk of this to develop is very low and looks only to be a rainmaking issue for Central America.

There are no concerns here at home, and none are really expected as we’re starting to really see the cool season pattern begin to take shape.

Hurricane season ends on November 30th.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for November 20th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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