COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia Metropolitan Airport soared to a high of 94 degrees on Friday. This is the first time this week temperatures cracked the 90-degree mark.

A weak surface trough moved through South Carolina earlier in the day, as a cold front is pushing in from the Mississippi Valley.

While this setup didn’t produce much rain Friday, with only a few isolated showers and storms, it’s setting the stage for increasing rain chances through the weekend .

Saturday will start off mostly clear with morning lows near 70 degrees. It will be a bit humid but at least the morning temperatures will be a degree above the early September seasonal low.

This will be the first time this week that the morning low won't be in the lower 60s.

By midday, expect increasing clouds and a partly sunny a

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