CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – Cold Arctic high pressure is building into the Southeast erasing away the brief warm up that we enjoyed on Monday. Tonight will be very cold with lows dropping into the low to mid 20s inland, upper 20s to low 30s at the beaches. Cold weather will stick around for the rest of the week with highs in the 40s and low 50s. Morning lows will be in the 20s through Friday morning.
Our next storm system will arrive on Friday as the cold weather slowly begins to erode away. The biggest question mark at this point: is the cold weather(cold enough for wintry weather) completely gone before the moisture moves in late Friday morning or afternoon? The odds are low at this time but there may be a brief period, at the onset of the storm, where a few snowflakes or sleet pellets could fall. The best chance would be inland, near I-95. No accumulation is likely as temperatures should be above freezing. Temperatures will slowly climb Friday afternoon and evening which would turn any frozen precipitation quickly over to rain with showers likely Friday night and for the first half of the day on Saturday. The most likely scenario right now is that the precipitation falls in the form of rain, with no wintry weather start to finish. Rain will exit the area Saturday afternoon with sunshine returning on Sunday.
TODAY: Sunny Sky. High 48, Low 28…