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Hilton Head Island, SC

Tuesday, November 3

79°mostly cloudy

78° high69° low17% raintrace amount

Your day

A mild, gray start turns warm and sunny by afternoon, with highs in the mid 70s and a gray evening. A slight chance of a shower arrives late tonight, but it's an easy day for outdoor plans.

MORNING64–75°MIDDAY74–75°AFTERNOON74–76°EVENING69–72°↑ 6:41 AM↓ 5:30 PMNOWSO FAR · OBSERVED
MORNING64–75°MIDDAY74–75°AFT'NOON74–76°EVENING69–72°↑ 6:41 AM↓ 5:30 PMNOWSO FAR · OBSERVED
Morning
mild and gray
Midday
warm and mostly sunny
Afternoon
warm and sunny
Evening
warm and gray
Tides · at Port Royal Plantation · water 69°
high
3:13 pm
6.7 ft
low
9:31 pm
high · Wed
3:54 am
6.5 ft
low · Wed
9:57 am

Thursday's high leans near 79°, with a warm tail

Thursday is headed for a high near 79°, though the models stretch up to 84° as deeper moisture streams in ahead of the late-week trough. Clouds and a few inland showers would hold it near 79°, while more sun lets it climb into the low 80s.

fork · thursday
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The week ahead

Changed since yesterday

Holding steady — no day's high or rain chance moved since yesterday's edition.

Next five days · the Anecast forecast

TueWedThuFriSat
High78°78°79°79°77°
Low69°68°67°61°58°
Precip17%5%9%19%7%

Highs tinted vs today's normal (74°): 8° below 8° above

The week, as the models see it

Thursday's high leans near 79°, with a warm tail — the models span 74–85° on Fri, most near 79°.

Forecast high temperature (°F) · next 7 days · a blend of models
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50°70°90°TueWedThuFriSatSunMon

82 model runs, colored by temperature  ·  middle of the pack  ·  NWS forecast

Friday is the wettest: the models center on 0.1 inches, most between 0.0 and 0.3 inches, the wettest 0.5.

Rain by day (inches) · next 7 days · a blend of models
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0.50TueWedThuFriSatSunMon▲ 1.4▲ 0.5▲ 2.5INCHES

82 model runs, daily totals (dim = dry)  ·  middle 80%  ·  middle of the pack

Today in station history (7 stats, records back decades)
StatValueYear(s)
record high for day 84.9 1961, 1972, 2004
record low for day 24.1 1954
average high for day 73.6 —
average low for day 51.2 —
warmest low for day 70 2015
coldest high for day 50 1966
largest temp swing for day 38.9 1965

Also worth knowing

Wednesday holds near 78°, a run above normal

Wednesday's forecast high is 78°, another day on the warm side of the 73.6° average for early November, as no front reaches the coast before the weekend. Most of the models keep it between 78° and 82°.

warm · week
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The weekend after Friday's front looks dry

Once Friday's cold front clears the coast, drier air moves back in, and Saturday's forecast high eases to 77°. The weekend carries no rain in the outlook.

front · weekend
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Morning edition, 2026-11-03 · grounded in station records · tomorrow morning: what today's forecast said, next to what happened.

Yesterday's receipt

Every forecast here is kept. The first receipt — what the forecast said, next to what the official station observed — lands the morning after the station reports.

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