DAYS 1-5 (SEPTEMBER 16-20)
High pressure continues its influence on our weather with fair and warm conditions early this week, but you’ll notice some increasing high cloudiness from the south later today and especially Tuesday. This is fanning off low pressure that is organizing off the US Southeast Coast and moving onshore into the Carolinas. By Wednesday, we lose our high pressure area but because of the blocking still in place in the atmosphere, the low to the south isn’t going to come up the coast that much. It just drifts up in this direction for a while – enough to thicken the clouds and spread some of its rain into at least the South Coast region by late Wednesday. How far north this comes is still in question, but the region overall stands the greatest chance of seeing wet weather from this system Wednesday night and Thursday. By Friday, we’ll already see high pressure from the north regaining control and starting to push this system back out to the south. During mid to late week we’ll have transitioned from our current warmth to a cooler regime…
TODAY: Sun – filtered by the arrival of high clouds from south to north later. Highs 78-85, coolest South Coast. Wind variable to SE up to 10 MPH.
TONIGHT: High cloudiness spreads across the sky. Patchy ground fog interior lower elevations. Lows 51-58. Wind SE to S under 10 MPH.
TUESDAY: Sun – dimmed by the thickening of high clouds south to north. Highs 77-84, coolest South Coast. Wind S up to 10 MPH.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows 54-61. Wind S up to 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Potential rain South Coast by late-day. Highs 74-81. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Potential rain, greatest chance South Coast. Areas of fog. Lows 58-65. Wind E 5-15 MPH.
THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy. Periodic rain is most likely from the I-90 belt southward. Highs 66-73. Wind E 5-15 MPH, higher gusts South Coast.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Clouds linger. Rain chance may hang on South Coast. Lows 51-58. Wind NE 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY: Cloud / sun mix. Highs 63-70. Wind NE 5-15 MPH, higher gusts at the coast.
DAYS 6-10 (SEPTEMBER 21-25)
Canadian high pressure is expected to be strong enough to provide dry but cooler weather for the September 21-22 weekend. We welcome autumn with the equinox at 8:43 a.m. on September 22. Pattern looks dry and milder early next week, but another surge of wet weather may make a run at the region from the southward around the middle of next week – something to watch.
DAYS 11-15 (SEPTEMBER 26-30)
Indications are for high pressure domination – mainly fair weather, a cool push then a moderating trend.