Phoenix warmth approaches 85 degrees before weekend cold front

You're watching the Fox 10 Weather Experts with meteorologist Erica Horvathin on Fox 10 News. I'm starting to speak now. Welcome back. Well, here's a live look from Flagstaff. It looks like the leaves are really starting to fall up there and temperatures are cool. 53 degrees at this time here in the valley, a beautiful sunset shaping up temperatures at 81 degrees here in Phoenix. We have clear skies across the state and really no major weather worries, but there are still some flood warnings that are taking place in the valley. Not much going on across the west right now, but there is some rain from a storm system, but it's all the way down in Texas. This storm system actually tracked through Arizona over the last couple of days, but didn't do much other than bring a couple showers on Friday to the high country and some wind. And things have really quieted down since then. As for those flood warnings for the Verde River and the Salt River, these will go until 11 a.m. tomorrow morning for spots in Mesa up to Fountain Hills and Rio Verde. And as for the rest of the Verde River, kind of west of Phoenix down toward Avondale. Buckeye and Gila Bend. This is going to last until eleven am tomorrow morning as well So they did get extended through the weekend but I think that the dam releases are going to start slowing even more in the coming days But last week was a beautiful week of weather. We saw sunny skies and temperatures in Phoenix were in the 70s every single day. It was perfect Arizona Valley weather. And this week we do turn the temperatures up a notch. We are going to be staying in the low 80s all week long. That's because of high pressure, which is going to be building in across the West for the majority of this week ahead. And so that's going to keep our temperatures warmer than normal across Arizona and most of the West, for that matter. Eventually, by this weekend, we will see a storm system starting to wrap up into the state, and that will bring in a cold front with temperatures eventually dropping back into the 70s. So for tonight, we'll fall to 62 degrees in Phoenix, 46 in Sedona, and 31 in Show Low, 33. in Winslow, 29 in Flagstaff, and 29 in the Grand Canyon. Some pretty cold nights and cold spots up north. As for tomorrow, though... We are warming to 84 degrees in Phoenix, 85 in Gila Bend and Lake Havasu. We'll see low 70s in Sedona, 67 in Payson, and 60 degrees in Flagstaff. Our 10-day forecast showing lots of sunshine. We'll see those sunny skies all week long until Friday when our rain chance starts to increase a bit. For now, I just have that at a 10% chance, but it could end up going up as we get closer and the models straighten things out and become more clear But temperatures will peak on Thursday at 85 degrees, a little warmer than normal, and then we should start cooling down next week.