Phoenix may finally see cooler weather at the end of this week as daily high temperatures are expected to dip below 100 degrees on Friday.

Weather officials forecast a high temperature of 92 by Sunday. Highs in the low 90s will hopefully last throughout next week. 

“This time of year we start seeing these transition events, so we get these weather systems that move through and they bring cooler air to the region,” said Isaac Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix.

The dry weather system approaching this week is bringing temperatures that are much closer to the average for early October, Smith said.

After several days of high temperatures in the 100s this week, Friday will see 98 and Saturday drops down to 94, according to the Weather Service. Nighttime temperatures will be at 70 and then drop into the upper 60s by Friday.

The Valley has continued to experience triple digit heat into autumn following a record breaking summer, a result of an anomalous high pressure system persisting over the region and decades of warming due to human-caused climate change.

“There is indication that we’ll see high pressure build back in and try to warm things” by the end of next week, Smith added.

Unfortunately, meteorologists still don’t expect any rain for the foreseeable future. The summer of 2020 was one of the driest monsoon seasons across the state.

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