Is dreaded heat dome headed to SC? Here’s the latest spring weather forecast

The usually high temperatures troubling the Midlands the past few days are partially caused by a heat dome centered to the west but cooler temperatures will move in this week, Brad Carlberg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Columbia said Monday.

Have no fear, the heat dome is coming back.

Carlberg said heat wave temperatures will be a feature of spring, as always.

“There is a stronger heat differential in this latitude,” he said.

The temperatures that soared into the 80s the past few days will sink to the mid 60s Tuesday, possibly lower.

“It’s a temperature rollercoaster,” Carlberg said.

By the end of the week, temperatures could soar to high 70s, low 80s before dropping into the 60s Saturday.

There is no rain forecast for at least the next 10 days.

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center predicts higher than average temperatures from April until June for much of the contiguous United States, except for parts of the northern Plains, upper Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and Northeast.

​​”The highest probabilities (greater than 60%) of above-normal temperatures are forecast for areas of the central Great Basin and Rockies to parts of the Southwest,” the Prediction Center said in an online forecast.

Even though it’s been warm in South Carolina, it could be worse. It was 101 in Phoenix Sunday, 20 degrees higher than average.

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