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After record-setting rain days expect the metro area to come alive with outdoor activities Friday and Saturday as skies will clear and the sun will make a special appearance.

(The Oregonian/file photo)

A high pressure system moves on in Friday bringing clearer skies (after morning clouds burn away) and slightly warmer temperatures.

Early Friday morning could offer up a light shower or two, especially near the Coast Range, but clearing skies and sun will warm the metro area to 60 degrees.

Saturday starts out dry as well with even warmer highs of 64. A cold front heads to the coast by Saturday afternoon and pushes more clouds and rain showers into the valleys by Saturday night. Expect rain for Saturday night and into Sunday morning.

Sunday will start out wet with showers tapering by 11 a.m. So the end of your weekend rounds out mostly cloudy with the high sliding back down to 60.

Forecasters for the National Weather Service predict high pressure will increase slowly beginning next week with temperatures warming into the 70s by Wednesday. At this point, both Monday and Tuesday look cloudy, but dry with only a slight chance of showers. Wednesday will be straight up sunny.