Sunday will not be a stormy washout like much of Saturday was across the Midlands and Upstate. Except for a few lingering clouds, the front will have cleared these regions by Sunday. By sunrise, a few showers will be pushing through the Pee Dee and Lowcountry, with a slight chance of some isolated ones turning severe. Any storms that turn severe could develop damaging winds and hail, and we can't rule out a tornado.
The good news is that these storms should have moved offshore by noon. The skies will also gradually clear in the afternoon, with only a few more lingering over the immediate coast. Highs on Sunday will be in the upper 70s across the Midlands and Upstate, although there will be a bit more breeze over the mountains, the wind coming from the west-southwest.
The winds will stay mainly from the west-southwest through much of the workweek as the same ample low-pressure system that dragged this weekend's cold front, producing these storms, will take its sweet time to get going finally. So even though the precipitation will exit the same counterclockwise rotation, it will stay put just to our north, guaranteeing the west winds, bringing temperatures around average for this time of year. There could be some cooler air sinking in during the evenings as a high-pressure system takes over and allows cooler air to be present in the evenings, allowing the low temperatures to be around 5 degrees below average for this time of year, around the mid-50s through the middle of the workweek.
Drought update - 4 week comparison
Some areas improved, but the state continues with a worsening drought during the last four weeks. In the last week of March, about 99 percent of the state was experiencing an abnormal drought. Although it shows that about 90 percent of South Carolina was under abnormally dry conditions at the end of April, it doesn't mean it improved. Some abnormally dry areas across the Lowcountry now deal with a moderate or severe drought. The southern Pee Dee is also experiencing a severe drought. The areas that have seen some drought improvement are parts of the Upstate where a chunk is drought-free.