Phoenix forecast: Warm week, weekend rain chances

Take a look right now at this live camera view from downtown Phoenix. Speaking of being in the valley, we have a nice clear sky that we've got going on, and we are going to keep it all day long. Dry conditions are persistent. 64 degrees for us currently. We're looking at winds about 10 miles per hour coming out of the east. On Fox Vision, everyone is dry. Not just a Phoenix thing, the whole state. We've got a few high clouds up in far northern Arizona. Those will be in place throughout the day today, but that is it. And then we've got that flood warning still in place. It has been well over a week since the flooding began as a result of water releases. We have a flood warning until 11 a.m. on Wednesday because low water crossing areas may see some flooding. Here's the latest gauge data, though, which really does tell the story that although this flood warning is in place, these levels are much lower, much more calm than they were, say, a week ago. We're at about, excuse me, four and a half feet salt of Val Vista. That's where we see some of the water release running through. But areas like the 202-101, Near, rather, the 202-101, and then also 47th Ave and 51st Ave along the salt. We're below two feet depth, and a lot of these are showing either no stream flow or very, very low stream flow, which means the water is barely moving, if at all. Same thing, the Gila-Estrella Parkway, we're at about three and a half foot depth. A look at our future cast, we can see that the high clouds I mentioned are going to continue along the northern parts of the state into this afternoon, even this evening, but otherwise very quiet, very dry conditions for us for now. But in the last half hour, I mentioned that we are looking at a weather pattern that will shift. That dome of high pressure moves out. That's kind of the door that blocks storms from entering. With that door moving off to the east, it allows for storm systems that may start to brew up, say, near Alaska, to run down the west coast in our direction. So this is what we're looking at is a series of systems that will approach us, the first of which Friday night into Saturday. As you can see, I've kind of highlighted the center points of these storms and how the kind of axis of them will spin up and over us. So the first one kind of clips southern Arizona. Right on its heels, a second weak trough passes potentially to the northern part of the state. So that means between Friday and Saturday, we will see the chance for some scattered showers, it looks like, around Arizona. How far this dips south will decide if the high country gets some spotty activity or actually gets a little bit of more steady shower activity on Saturday. But we will see that one, too. There's a little bit of a lull, but then as we head into early next week, there is around three. Now, models are split on this one, potentially being a more potent system. So this could be some high elevation snow. Snow even as we get into early next week. But just stuff we're watching, not a guarantee at this point. A look at our forecast highs. 68 today in Payson, 84 in Phoenix, and 61 in Flagstaff. And as we go into tonight, that temperature drops to 42 in Payson and 59 in the Valley. Here's your 10-day forecast. That number in the 80s, guys, all the way through Friday. And then over the weekend, we drop to those 70s.