Hello everyone, Jared Smith here with your Charleston weather forecast for Saturday, November 25th and Sunday, November 26th, 2023.

Cooler than normal weather continues this weekend as high pressure wedges into the area, keeping winds out of the northeast and temperatures down as a result.

Saturday does look like the better of the two weekend days, though, as we should see a fair bit of sunshine before cloud cover begins to increase later in the day.

Temperatures on Saturday will start in the mid 40s and head to the low 60s in the afternoon despite that sunshine, and that’s thanks to the wedge and the northeasterly winds blowing within it.

Sunday will still be mostly dry, particularly in the morning, but a disturbance lifting towards us from the gulf and its associated surface low will bring showers back into the forecast starting Sunday evening and lasting through early Monday morning.

We will stay wedged in, and the increasing cloud cover combined with the continued northeasterly winds will keep temperatures around 60 degrees in the afternoon.

So get out those sweaters! The main weather hazard will be coastal flooding, though, as the aforementioned northeasterly winds push astronomically enhanced water levels up even further.

The risk for coastal flooding will be highest with the early morning high tides, so as volume is concerned, that’ll help limit those impacts a little bit.

However, that doesn’t mean that these still won’t cause problems for folks trying to get down towards the hospital district as well as around the citadel.

Fishburnet Haygood, looking at you! Saturday morning’s high tide is forecast to peak around 6am, about 7.3 to 7.5 feet, and that gets us flirting with moderate flood stage.

The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood advisory for Saturday morning’s high tide between 4 and 8am, so that’s the time frame in which you’ll want to be extra careful for saltwater on the roads.

Sunday morning’s tide should run even a little bit higher as we’re a day closer to the full moon.

Expect water levels to peak in moderate flood stage between 7.5 and 7.7 feet around Sunday morning’s 644 high tide, and these tides could once again be high enough to close some roads, so be ready to reroute if you have downtown travel plans early in the day on Sunday.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for November 25th, 2023.

I’m Jared Smith.

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