Stray showers today then dry heading into the weekend

Bend, Ore (KTVZ) – A few scattered showers today in the region, but nothing widespread or organized. The normal high temperature for the high desert is around 70-degrees, so the cloud cover and spotty showers cooled us from the 80s we saw yesterday, but still slightly above normal by a few degrees.

The quick one and done light rain event today will be followed by mild and dry weather to close out the week. Highs on Thursday and Friday will reach the middle 70s under partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies. Get outside and enjoy all that Central Oregon has to offer, the weather will not get in the way.

The weekend may have some changes in store for us, but nothing major. There will be a deep area of low pressure, currently in the Gulf of Alaska, that will push into British Columbia late this week. The result will be some cloud cover over the area on Saturday and some rain across the Cascades.

The rain in the mountains will not get into the high desert as the mountains will squeeze out all the moisture. This wave of cloud cover is moisture starved and should not be too impactful other than light rain and very high (above 7000 feet) mountain mix of rain and some snow.

The high desert will see a mix of clouds and sunshine Saturday and high temperatures in the low 60s. What that deep low will do, aside from some mountain precipitation, is drive our temperatures cooler Saturday.

Sunday will be about 10 – degrees warmer and mostly to partly sunny. This will be out ahead of a couple of days with some light rain.

A line of showers enters the state at the coast before sunrise Monday and will slowly progress east. The chance for rain in Central Oregon is low, but some light rain will fall across the mountains and continue east over the Tri-Counties.

Not much more than some light rain Monday under mostly cloudy skies. The clouds and the rain will allow temperature readings to stay near normal, the low 70s. Tuesday will be breezy and some showers may linger through the morning. Generally this rain will do little to help our drought situation, but we will take what we can get.

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