Looking to the ensembles, the only useful tools beyond day 10, there isn't much support for heat.

The air is dryer in Colombia, SC than it is in Downtown LA right now

Yeah, the operational GFS was toying with that a couple days ago as well and will probably just keep flipping back and forth for awhile. I just know that if the wet-biased Euro is showing 0.10" of rain here over two weeks, it's probably going to be very slim pickings.

Speaking of non issues. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o

It'll remain a non issue after your annexation.