Phoenix weather: 80s on Veterans Day, storms by Friday

Gorgeous sunrise here in the Valley of the Sun, 722 this morning. Crystal, 63 degrees. That is gorgeous. It is. Isn't that a good song? Like, you can't help but kind of, like, snap to it. Take a look right now at Twin Arrows Casino Cam that we've got up in the high country. We're looking at a clear, clear sky yet again. Just like the last few days, very little change to today's forecast. So, Fox Vision keeping us dry, clear, warm for this time of year as well. Not super hot or anything, but we are warmer than what is average. It's warmer than we have been over the last month or so where it seems like we've been running cooler a lot and we've had a lot of wet weather and we've now dried out. There's still residual flooding mostly along the salt still between Granite Reef to Tempe Town Lake as additional water releases have been going on. So this until 11 a.m. in place. But now there's a new flood warning that is from Painted Rock Lake all the way down to Dateland in this area. So downstream along the Gila all the way through at least next Tuesday. This warning is in place because of the slow water releases planned. which may lead to some flooding and say like low-lying areas or some farmlands that are near the Gila down by Gila Bend. So I wanted to show off the numbers here because I do think this is really exceptional to see. If you've been wondering, if you've been seeing the water flow through the valley, running along the south, like where? Is that water going? The hope is some will absorb it in the ground, recharge our aquifer, but some has been pooling in Painted Rock Lake, which is a flood-controlled lake. It's usually dry, and it was dry on November 4th. It was at 530-foot elevation, which is dry conditions, so that's like as low as it can go. Then by November 9th, so only five days later, it was up to 571.9 feet. That was where it peaked. It is still at 571, but notice it is starting to drop just slightly now with those water releases that have begun as of yesterday, and that will continue as mentioned. A look at the futurecast for us. We are dry and clear through today. We are dry and clear into tomorrow as well. But change arrives on Friday, first in the form of some extra clouds, but eventually some shower chances. I do expect them to be scattered. There could be a spot thunderstorm as well, but the general pattern here is that this large kind of trough of moisture that has been mostly focused up near the Pacific Northwest as well as Canada, branches are going to start to break off. That first you can see starts to skid over us as we get into Friday, say like afternoon into the evening. So scattered chances of rain, particularly south. Parts of the state are expected on Friday, then right on its heels, a secondary wave runs to the north of us, and that will bring us additional chances for showers, particularly north parts of the state, on Saturday, a little break on Sunday into Monday, and then another system passing by, it looks like, by the time we get into Tuesday. Rain chances for this weekend. On Friday, best is the farther south you go, but Phoenix at about a 30% chance. Saturday, take a look at those chances. Best chances, mostly central and northern parts of the state, where in the valley we'll put it at about a 40% chance for storms. Your high temperatures, 84 in Phoenix today, 62 for Winslow, and that temperature in the 80s for spots like Lake Havasu and Bullhead City. Your 10-day forecast, tomorrow up to 86, that's where we peak. Then we drop down to 74 by Saturday. Saturday and next week could be one, two more rounds of wet weather, which will drop us to the low 70s.