High temperatures will climb to 90 degrees in the Upstate on Friday and Saturday before a cold front slips in very early Sunday, bringing a brief break from the heat and a drop into the 70s.
The front will weaken as it moves over the mountains, so scattered showers are expected in western North Carolina and only light showers are possible in the Upstate. Not everyone will see rain, and the moisture is not expected to help with the extreme drought. The humidity will not be high, but people should still stay hydrated as the warm stretch continues through Saturday.
Blake Bridges said the goal every day is accuracy and that the station’s weather team is dedicated to giving viewers a forecast they can trust. He also said the station is the only one in the market with its own 24/7 live radar, Live Super Doppler 4, and called WYFF News 4 the weather leader in the market.
Bruce Fixman said everyone knows forecasting around here is difficult because of the Upstate and the mountains, and said the station that gets the forecast right more than anyone else is Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus and the WYFF News 4 weather team. WYFF News 4 said its weather team was independently certified as having the most accurate forecast in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market for the second year in a row.
The sharp swing from 90-degree heat to 70s by Sunday is the main change to watch, but the rain is likely to be too scattered and too weak to make much difference where drought is deepest.
