SAVANNAH, Ga. () — Saturday maintained the calm weather pattern seen throughout the workweek, but a cold front on Sunday is set to bring a shift to the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry’s atmosphere.

The day will kick off with mostly clear skies and refreshing temperatures. A breeze from the south will ensure that morning temperatures remain a bit warmer compared to recent nights, with early readings ranging from the upper 50s to the lower 60s.

As the day progresses, cloudiness is expected to increase ahead of a cold front that aims to introduce some showers by late afternoon and into the evening. Despite the impending change, temperatures are predicted to climb to the lower 80s before the front’s arrival.

While heavy downpours could occur in isolated spots, most of the rain will be light to moderate. There’s also a slight possibility of a few scattered storms. The showers will generally travel from west to east.

Expect the showers to enter the region’s western counties around 2 p.m. They will likely reach the coast between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., gradually diminishing as the evening progresses.

Conditions will be breezy and gusty throughout Sunday. Sustained wind will be out of the south around 10-15 mph with gusts as high as 25 mph.

The cold front will be moving off of the coast heading into Monday morning which will help clear the sky out. Monday through Friday will be mainly sunny and warm.

Afternoon highs all week will range from the mid 70s to lower 80s.

Another system is expected to move in for next weekend which will also bring the next chance for showers on Saturday and into Sunday.

TRACKING THE TROPICS

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring two systems for tropical or subtropical development in the Atlantic basin over the next week or so.

The first system is a tropical wave that is located about 400 to 500 miles east of the Windward Islands. It is moving west toward the Caribbean Sea. The environment that this system is in right now over the Atlantic will not support significant development within the next two days.

However, the environment will be more conducive of development once this tropical wave enters the Caribbean over the next few days.

The overall chance of this system becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm over the next two days is low (10%). Development chances increase to a medium (40%) risk over the next 5-7 days.

While it is worth keeping an eye on the forecast for this system, there are a few factors working against this becoming a threat to the U.S.

Several fronts are forecast to move off of North America over the next week or so which would help steer the system away. Added windshear from the fronts would also help to weaken and tear apart a tropical system.

Water temperatures in the Gulf and western Atlantic are starting to cool off because of cold fronts moving well south of the U.S. now that we are getting deeper into fall.

This system poses no threat to the U.S. right now.

A second system that the NHC is monitoring is located several hundred miles east of the U.S. It has a low (10%) chance of becoming a subtropical low. This system is moving east away from the U.S.

Regardless of development, it poses no threat to land.