Light rain and cooler temps arrive in Arizona before mid-week storm

You're watching the Fox 10 Weather Experts with Ashley Loessa on Fox 10 News. And we'll be tracking our next weather system next week. That could bring us here in the high country some snow, but that's not going to be the case for the rest of today or the rest of this weekend. Happy Saturday, everyone. Taking our live cameras right now. Feeling like fall. A little bit cloudy and gloomy out there and cooler. Love to see the fall colors up in the high country out in Flagstaff as well. This temperature is not bad. 77 degrees as you join us here in downtown Phoenix. Those winds have died down significantly. That low pressure that was responsible for that is starting to move out of the state. And moving in will be some more changes. So here's a look at some of our top headlines. We'll have some light rain that we're seeing for parts of the state right now through tonight and into tomorrow morning. Temperatures are going to be warming up into early next week. And there is, again, the potential for some rain activity tracking that system for you in just a bit. but tracking those temperatures and the rest of the day today right here with your planner. 68 degrees is what we're dropping down tonight with the potential for some more rain. And you can see for tomorrow we'll have mostly sunny skies. We'll start the day off a little bit cloudy and then heading into the afternoon hours we'll start to see some more sunshine with a high roughly at around 82 degrees. Now as far as today went, 80 degrees. Not too bad as we kickstart the weekend, especially for you fall lovers that want a little bit cooler situation. we got it and it was below average with 89 being the norm and we're starting to feel those temperatures bump up a little bit more average but not bumping up are going to be those winds at least for tonight we're still going to be having some on and off breezes for the rest of this weekend you can see for sunday 1 a.m towards phoenix close to 30 mile per hour wind gas at 26 just about but certainly nothing as strong as what we had yesterday all of our wind alerts have expired and it looks as though we're still going to maintain just some light breezes here and there, especially towards south central Arizona towards the eastern end. So the winds are cooperating and right now you can see with our future cast model, we'll continue to hold on to the cloud coverage and even some more moisture chances certainly along the east of Phoenix. You can see those bands of precipitation extending from the valley up into the high country and that's going to continue to linger into the early Sunday morning hours mainly for the north and east of us and the cloud coverage that we've been seeing and as we had mentioned that'll start to break down right at around one o'clock this is what the models are showing so we'll have some pops of sunshine and we'll clear out even more towards northeastern parts of the state we'll also start to see some more showers developing coming in from the south some more isolated spots as we head towards south central Arizona and we are anticipating some more rain potential with the system that's going to be coming in dropping southwesterly and this is going to actually bring up some more rain chances as we head into next week. Wednesday and Thursday some more widespread rain coverage still a little bit too early to tell but according to the National Weather Service and the Climate Prediction Center we're seeing a lot of green across the nation and across Arizona so that always indicates to us above average conditions with that time frame being October 23rd through the 27th with those temperatures a little bit more average as well so we're certainly going to be seeing some more rain chances for tonight we'll be seeing and feeling those 60s here in Phoenix 40s in Flagstaff 50s in Sedona 64 tonight in Prescott 73 in Globe and as we take it to that 10-day forecast warming back up near 90s through Tuesday and then again we'll be on standby for Wednesday and Thursday temperatures dropping down with the potential for some rain chances Thank you.