Happy Friday! Clear skies have returned, with a pleasant but slightly breezy afternoon and plenty of sunshine to enjoy throughout the evening. While some areas in the Magic Valley and Owyhee county have maintained cloud cover, we should start to clear out during the evening.
As we head into the overnight, patchy fog develops in the Treasure Valley. It will be an otherwise clear night allowing for cold temperatures with overnight lows dipping into the 20s in the lower valleys, single digits for the mountain valleys and subzero single digits for the mountains. We stay dry into Saturday morning, but increasing cloud cover and wind can be expected throughout the day as the next storm system approaches from the west.
This system looks less potent than the last, but there will still be several inches of snowfall in the higher elevations. As precipitation from the storm arrives in southwest Idaho, snow levels will be around 3000-3500 feet providing the potential for mixed precipitation for the Snake River Plain during the onset. However, it will quickly switch over to plain rain on Sunday.
As we move into next week, our weather pattern will remain unsettled, with moisture from an atmospheric river in California making its way towards Idaho. This means continued rain chances for the Treasure and Magic valleys, but also a welcome warm-up with temperatures reaching the low to mid 50s.
