Rain chances this weekend in Arizona

You're watching the Fox 10 Weather Experts with meteorologist Erica Horvathin on Fox 10 News. Welcome back. Can't get over that beautiful evening sunset. It's looking gorgeous out there. Temperatures are still in the low 80s, so it's going to be a nice night. Maybe go for a walk or sit outside, enjoy that beautiful weather. And we still do have clear skies across the state, but warnings are starting to be issued for the West Coast. A lot of small craft advisories, winter storm warnings for the mountain terrain, especially up around Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Mountain. As these big storms are going to We're going to be bringing in rain, mountain snow, and colder temperatures to the western U.S. So those storms starting to swing in here already. The first one will be here tomorrow. It will track through southern Arizona and northern Mexico. So it will mostly bring that heavier rain to the southern half of the state, closer to where the low is. And then the second storm is going to quickly follow behind it. That one is going to track through southern Utah, northern Arizona, keeping that rain going for the central. In northern half of the state through our Saturday morning and midday, but most of that should end by around Saturday night, leaving us drier for our Sunday. So Sunday is going to be the beautiful sunny day of our weekend. A great day to get outside, but you'll be kind of dodging showers and thunderstorms. Tomorrow night and Saturday morning and midday. Here's what that looks like on Futurecast. Clouds rolling in by tomorrow morning. We'll see partly to mostly cloudy skies for our Friday. Showers and thunderstorms will come in from the southwest, likely in a line that will make its way in toward the valley by the late afternoon, early evening. So somewhere between around 4 and 6 is when we could start expecting rain across the valley. And showers and thunderstorms are likely to track in toward the high country. These are going to be pretty scattered for our evening, and those are likely to hit the higher country around 7 o'clock and after. Then the second storm comes in. This one will bring rain in from west to east. This one will bring kind of that southern edge of the storm toward the valley, so we're looking at some pretty light hit or miss rain in the valley area Saturday morning through midday. But it will be much more widespread for the high country, lasting through around the early afternoon. And clearing out for most spots by the evening. This is 8 p.m. on Saturday and then Sunday, like I said, looking dry and mostly sunny. Rainfall accumulation is going to be pretty light with this storm. So we're looking at rainfall totals for the entire Friday to Saturday event staying under an inch. This means that we're not going to be dealing with that same kind of flooding that we've dealt with with the last storm systems that have come through. Could see some heavier downpours at times, but overall, we will be looking at, for most spots, under. Half an inch of rainfall accumulation. Our temperatures will be cooling down as these storm systems move through. We'll see a low of 63 tonight in Phoenix and 52 in Sedona, 34 in Flagstaff. And tomorrow, temperatures start to drop, especially thanks to the cloud cover that'll be moving in. And we'll see a high of 79 in Phoenix, 57 in Show Low, 63 in Winslow, and 51 in Flagstaff. Temperatures will cool down even more on Saturday with a high of 70. 74 in the Valley and only 44 in Flagstaff. We should rebound a little bit on Sunday with the help of sunshine and drier skies. So it's going to be a great end to the weekend. And next week, another storm expected to move in by Tuesday, bringing a 40% chance of rain. But after that, we'll keep the cool air around and the sunshine will return.