Augusta is expected to heat up this weekend with temperatures hitting near 90 degrees with mostly sunny skies in time for the Arts in the Heart Festival, according to the weekend forecast.
The 2025 Arts in the Heart of Augusta festival will be on Reynolds Street and Augusta Common and along portions of the Savannah River, according to the Greater Augusta Arts Council. The annual three-day arts festival will showcase an array of art, artists, musicians, craftsmen, authors, and street performers.
The Sept. 19-21 festival typically takes up several blocks of Broad Street, but organizers this year considered the ongoing construction improvements along Broad too disruptive to accommodate the high foot traffic from thousands of visitors.
“We’re in this pretty persistent dry pattern,” said Chris Rohrbach, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Columbia, South Carolina. “We had a few isolated showers the past few days. But that pattern should continue with very limited rainfall overall on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There could be an isolated, brief shower. But for the most part, everyone’s going to remain dry.”
This map shows the locations of stages, exhibits, food booths, etc., at the 2025 Arts in the Heart festival to be held Sept. 19-21 in downtown Augusta.
Rohrbach said in terms of temperature, it’ll be a little warm for the season with daily highs in the mid to upper 80s each day.
“Normal for this time of year is in the low to mid 80s,” he said. “So, a little warmer than normal. But it could be worse. We’re seeing this time of year, as we start getting into Fall, we typically go into a drier pattern where we don’t have these everyday summertime thunderstorms anymore. We’re in a lull before we start getting into the larger synoptic scale weather makers that we get in the wintertime.”
Friday:
High 90, Low 66
Saturday
High 89, Low 64
Sunday:
High 88, Low 65
Advanced general admission weekend passes for Arts in the Heart cost $15 and are available at artsintheheartofaugusta.com. Children 10 and younger are admitted free. Badges at the gate cost $20.
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Erica Van Buren is the climate change reporter for The Augusta Chronicle, part of the USA TODAY Network. Connect with her at EVanBuren@gannett.com or on X: @EricaVanBuren32.
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