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After a rainy Thursday, the weather will start drying out and cooling off as we head into the weekend. Tonight, the leading edge of the frontal boundary will move offshore, taking the rain and cloud cover with it. Cold air damming (where the colder air mass at the lower levels is trapped by mountains) could bring further temperature dips and cloudy skies early on Friday. Friday afternoon will be a nice day, with highs in the upper-60s under mostly sunny skies.

Invest 99L has officially been labeled Potential Tropical Cyclone 19. The National Hurricane Center gives this label to systems that are still disorganized but close enough to land to bring impacts and have the potential to become more organized in the coming hours or days. This allows the NHC to issue watches and warnings.

Their escape captured national headlines and generated a slew of funny memes. But Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace isn’t laughing as roughly a dozen rhesus macaque monkeys are still on the lamb after fleeing the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, SC.

Several months ago we interviewed our next guest about his new role as head of the Office of Economic Engagement at the University of South Carolina, but we’ve invited him back today to talk about his other job as dean of USC’s College of Pharmacy.

We’re getting close to mid-November, and the tropics have continued to be prolific. We have a tropical wave traveling over the Caribbean that has a chance to develop as it moves over the western Caribbean late this week. Currently, the National Hurricane Center gives it a high chance for this disturbance to develop into a tropical storm and gradually, and possibly, into a hurricane within the next seven days.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 12, 2024: we get some final election 2024 numbers and take a look at priorities from Republicans in the Statehouse up to Congress; SC Public Radio’s Russ McKinney reports on the state’s growing energy needs; a look at South Carolinians making moves and who isn’t joining the Trump administration from our state; and more!