Hi, hi – StormTeam 3 Meteorologist Alysa Carsley here – let’s have a fabulous Monday!

We really can’t escape these soaking rain showers, can we?! Very heavy rain and strong storms moved up our immediate coast this morning and as of 8am, have pushed north of Beaufort County towards Charleston. More rain will be on the way through the afternoon.

A Flood Watch will continue through 6 pm this evening for all of our coastal counties. Over the last 3 days, we’ve picked up 4″+ across our coastal counties. Because of that, it won’t take much for additional rain to cause flooding problems. High temperatures remain in the mid-80s.

Our weather pattern will slowly transition into the typical summer pattern with scattered storms and hot high temperatures starting Tuesday. Highs will be right below or at average in the upper 80s to low 90s tomorrow. Rain will still be heavy at times, but it won’t be nearly as widespread. 

The summer heat and humidity will return by Wednesday through our weekend. High temperatures in the low to mid 90s with heat index in the triple digits. Rain and storms will be isolated through Sunday. This will give us a much-needed break from the soaking rain that we’ve seen over the last week and a half. 

TROPICS UPDATE

Our next Tropical Depression is likely by late today or tomorrow as an area of low pressure just west of the Cabo Verde Islands continues to organize. The chance is at 90% for the next 2 -7 days. A ridge of high pressure in the central Atlantic will steer this system westward while the likely tropical system strengthens into a possible hurricane.

Still way too far out to know specific details on where it will go once it gets to the western side of the ridge. A few things to consider: the low needs to form for models to input the correct data and we have to see the strength of the ridge. As of now, model trends have the system recurving around the ridge, staying off our coast. That is NOT locked in stone – things can and will change. We will have to watch this system closely over the next week.