Is it time to swap swimsuits out for sweaters? Here’s what meteorologists forecast in SC
For two glorious days, the Lowcountry’s air will cool, the humidity will plummet and there won’t be a raindrop in sight.
Sunday and Monday’s temperatures are forecast to dip into the low 50s in the evening and needle to the mid 70s at peak warmth, as a cold front pushes through.
But don’t get too excited. These days are outliers in the meteorological world.
Douglas Berry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Charleston office, said the crisp temperatures are about 10 to 15 degrees below what’s typical. According to Berry, it’s some of the coolest air the state’s had in quite some time.
He called the next few days a “quiet period.”
It’s a far cry from threats of tropical storms and hurricanes throughout September and Tropical Storm Idalia’s brush of Beaufort County’s coast in late August. The latest storm, post-tropical storm Philippe, won’t be a major bother to South Carolina.
New England and portions of Atlantic Canada will get the brunt of Philippe’s remnants, bringing the possibility of heavy rainfall and gusty winds, the National Hurricane Center said.
In South Carolina, coastal waters could be “somewhat bumpy,” the state’s Severe Weather Liaison Frank Strait said. It’s likely a small craft advisory will be issued for Saturday night through Sunday morning.
Temperatures will spring back up to the 80s on Tuesday, and later in the week the state could get between 1 and 2 inches of rain.
But Strait warned to keep vigilant of tropical waves churning in the Atlantic that could form into tropical storms.
“We don’t have any current threats but the hurricane season is far from over,” Strait said Friday. He the referenced Hurricane Hazel, which made landfall on Oct. 15 in 1954.
Of all the tropical waves Strait is watching, he said one moving off of West Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean on Friday could form into a tropical storm.
However, it’s “too early to say for certain that it never will affect the United States,” Strait said.
