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FXUS62 KCHS 050223
AFDCHS

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Charleston SC
1023 PM EDT Tue Jun 4 2024

.SYNOPSIS...
High pressure will extend across the area through Wednesday. A
cold front will approach from the northwest on Thursday, then
slowly move through on Friday. High pressure returns for the
weekend.

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.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING/...
Convection just west of the inland Georgia zones will brush
parts of the area near and west of US-301 through about 12-1 am.
This region is where there is higher MUCAPE and greater values
of the K Index, aligned with some deeper moisture and a PWat
axis, as ell as 700-400 mb PVA. Activity will fade by 1 am with
increasing CINH and nocturnal stablizing influences.

A relatively mild night is expected, with minimum temperatures
in the upper 60s to lower 70s (except for some mid 60s in the
Francis Marion Nat`l Forest), which is actually close to normal
for this time of year.

Still not concerned about any widespread fog, but some patchy,
low level late night fog will be possible, especially within any
areas that received rainfall this evening.

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.SHORT TERM /6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY/...
Wednesday: A fairly active pattern will be in place as weak mid-lvl
ridging shifts further offshore and becomes replaced with weak mid-
lvl troughing across the Southeast United States. A series of h5
shortwaves associated with the trough will ripple across the area,
the first of which occurs on Wednesday and helps promote scattered
to potentially numerous showers/thunderstorms during peak heating
hours. A seabreeze circulation could provide an additional focus of
activity and a few stronger thunderstorms and/or isolated severe
thunderstorm can not be ruled out during peak heating hours, mainly
inland. Convection should then wane during evening hours. High temps
should range in the upper 80s to lower 90s away from the coast.
Overnight lows should range in the low-mid 70s away from the
immediate beaches.

Thursday: A southwest flow will help advect deep moisture to the
region (PWATs near 2.0 inches) ahead of a cold front advancing
toward the Southeast United States late day, suggesting the most
active weather day of the week. Numerous showers and thunderstorms
remain in the forecast during afternoon hours when stronger h5
shortwave energy arrives and the sfc front advances across the
Midlands. Although wind fields remain rather weak, moderate levels
of instability could result in a few pulse severe thunderstorms
locally, especially if thunderstorm boundary interactions occur with
an inland moving seabreeze across inland zones. Convection could
persist into evening hours as the front begins to shift across the
local area at night, posing a limited risk for a few stronger and/or
isolated severe thunderstorm closer to coastal areas before
midnight. However, the threat for stronger activity likely comes to
an end during the second half of the night as the front begins to
advance offshore. High temps for the day should range in the lower
90s for most areas away from the beaches. Low temps should dip into
the upper 60s well inland to low-mid 70s closer to the coast.

Friday: The cold front will likely reach the coast prior to
daybreak, with a deep westerly flow occurring across the region in
its wake during the day. There isn`t much in the way of cold air
advection post fropa to start off the weekend and with a substantial
downslope wind in place temps are likely to remain warm, perhaps in
the lower 90s. However, moisture will likely be driven offshore with
the front and subsidence associated with the downslope flow suggests
precip chances will remain fairly limited to southern most areas,
perhaps near the I-95 corridor across southeast Georgia. Given the
amount of heating, a few thunderstorms can not be ruled out, but
stronger/severe convection is not expected.

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.LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Although temps will remain fairly warm this weekend, the airmass
will noticeably change due to substantially lower dewpoints. This
should also limit the potential for convection. An increase in
moisture early next week and some shortwave energy will bring a
return to scattered diurnal convection.

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.AVIATION /02Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/...
VFR conditions are expected to prevail at KCHS, KJZI, and KSAV
tonight and Wednesday morning.

There is certainly a risk for SHRA/TSRA Wednesday afternoon, but
since the coverage is rather low, and the better chances exist
further inland, there is not mention in the TAFs at this time.

Extended Aviation Outlook: TEMPO flight restrictions are possible
with showers and thunderstorms Thursday with a passing front.
VFR conditions should then prevail Friday and persist through
Sunday.

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.MARINE...
Tonight: Under the control of high pressure that extends
directly across the area, southerly winds of 10 or 15 kt will
prevail. Seas will be just 2 or 3 feet. We could see isolated
late night showers/thunderstorms, especially beyond 20 nm
offshore.

Wednesday through Sunday: High pressure will remain over the western
Atlantic Wednesday, maintaining southerly flow around 15 kt or less
into early Wednesday night. The pressure gradient should then show
signs of strengthening heading into Thursday as a cold front
approaches from the west Thursday night into early Friday. Southwest
winds gusting upwards to 15-20 kt are possible ahead and immediately
post fropa, before the pressure gradient weakens and winds turn more
offshore heading into the weekend. Seas should also build up to 3-4
ft into Thursday night, then subside to 2-3 ft during the
weekend.

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.TIDES/COASTAL FLOODING...
Astronomical tides will continue to rise this week. Although
meteorological conditions are not very favorable for elevated
tides, we are expecting the threat for a positive tidal anomaly
of 0.5 to 0.7 ft. Therefore, the evening high tides Wednesday
and Thursday could reach at least 7.0 ft MLLW in Charleston,
necessitating Coastal Flood Advisories.

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.CHS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...None.
SC...None.
MARINE...None.

&&

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NEAR TERM...
SHORT TERM...DPB
LONG TERM...DPB
AVIATION...
MARINE...