Weekend storms approach in Arizona

You're watching the Fox 10 Weather Experts with meteorologist Erica Horvathin on Fox 10 News. Welcome back. Well, it was another gorgeous day out there. We've just been getting so spoiled as of lately. Temperature is hitting 83 today for our high, only four degrees warmer than normal. A little bit warmer than normal for the low as well, which should be closer to the mid-50s, so running about six degrees above average there. But we are far from records. These temperatures just slightly. It's slightly warmer than normal and we'll be seeing that trend continue over the next couple of days, but this weekend we will start cooling back down to kind of where we were last week. As for the high country today, we hit 60s, low 70s. It was beautiful up north as well. Temperatures starting to cool off in our highest elevation spots. We're still in those mid 60s though for Sedona, Payson and Prescott and still in the low 80s here in Flagstaff. Phoenix, excuse me. Our overnight lows are going to be dropping off back into the low 60s, so as the sun sets, the temperatures will drop pretty quickly. We'll be in the mid 70s by around 8 p.m., but really a beautiful night expected. We'll have great conditions again tomorrow and maybe even slightly warmer temperatures thanks to this ridge of high pressure, which is building in over the western U.S. And this is staying in place through Thursday. But eventually on Friday, we do start to see our next round of storms moving in, which will start dropping our temperatures off over the weekend and bringing in some rain chances. So as for now, we'll drop to 62 tonight in the Valley, 48 in Sedona, 31 in Show Low, and 29 in Flagstaff. And for tomorrow, it's going to be another gorgeous day out there. Plenty of sunshine across the state. Temperatures around 84 in the Valley, 85 out at Lake Havasu, 65 in Prescott, 71 in Sedona, and 58 degrees in Flagstaff. We have completely clear skies out there and no clouds moving in for tomorrow, but there are a couple of warnings to tell you about. There is still a flood warning through tomorrow at 11 a.m. for the Salt River below Granite Reef Dam and Tempe Town Lake. So that just means that there's still high current and high water levels in that stretch. Thank you so much. Further south, this is actually toward Gila Bend, and this is the Painted Rock Reservoir. Below the dam there, they're starting to do some water releases, so there's now a flood warning for that section of the Gila River below the dam until next Tuesday. So if you do drive through this area, just know that some of those low-water crossings may be impassable in the area. Going into the weekend, we do have a chance for rain, but I don't foresee this really causing too much of a flooding risk this weekend like the last couple of storm systems that we've had. The first storm will come in on Friday, this one tracking mainly south of the state, so it will bring rain to the southern half of Arizona primarily, and we're looking at really light rainfall totals. And with the second round that will come in on Saturday to Sunday, this one's going to come in from the north, so it will be a colder core storm. This one will bring the best chances for rain to the northern half of the state, thanks to that tracking through northern Arizona and southern Utah. So for rainfall potential, it could still change, but even the Valley on Friday, really not seeing too much measurable rain. We have a better chance for most of us on Saturday and then Sunday it should start to clear out. But the timing could change. Temperatures will drop into the 70s as the storm systems move through and we'll stay there through next week. All right, Erica, thanks.