Today (Saturday): A shower could be around as soon as sunrise, but odds are highest from about midmorning through mid- or late afternoon. Much of the activity is light, amounting to a tenth or two of an inch where it falls the most consistently and many spots seeing less. It is the leading edge of much warmer air, but we won’t feel it yet thanks to highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. Winds may be variable, favoring from the south and southeast around 10 mph. Confidence: Medium-High

Tonight: Outside a small chance of a shower early, skies will be trending clearer through the evening and night. Temperatures are probably somewhat milder than they have been with upper 40s and low 50s for lows most places. Some patchy fog might develop late and toward dawn. Confidence: Medium-High

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Tomorrow (Sunday): Patchy fog dissipates quickly with sunrise and then mostly sunny skies, plus being south of the warm front, deliver the first of a stretch of very warm ones. Afternoon readings strive for the low and mid-80s. Winds likely blow around five to 10 mph from the southwest. Confidence: Medium-High

Tomorrow night: Mostly clear skies persist. Upper 50s to lower 60s is a good range for lows, although more folks may end up 60-plus than below the mark as moisture levels tick upward. Confidence: Medium

Mostly sunny conditions should continue Monday. As hot temperatures settle in, we may be hoping for any clouds we can get. Highs are about 86 to 91 across the area, coolest well north and west or where winds are off the water. Confidence: Medium

It’s feeling a bit summerlike ahead of a cold front. Lows in the low and mid-60s Tuesday give way to morning sun and bubbling clouds into the midday. Hit-or-miss afternoon to evening showers and storms are possible, some of which could be strong to severe. Mid-80s to around 90 should do it for highs before any storm threat materializes. Confidence: Medium

They blended the scenic, the thermal and the physiological.

Much bright springtime blue appeared aloft. Clouds appeared throughout the day, but seemed unable to deny the Washington area an ample measure of warm sunshine.

The afternoon high temperature reached 66 degrees. That is six below the average high in Washington for the date. But it fell just shy of that thermal zone considered to be the most comfortable.

Any blemishes seemed few and minor. Even with a high wind of 17 mph and a peak gust of 22, there seemed little about Friday afternoon to evoke dismay or displeasure.

In many of the measurements that characterize weather, Friday might have seemed a middling sort of day, devoid of unusual distinctions.

But it also seemed the sort of day that would be welcome at almost any time. Recognition of its quiet merits may have been hampered by following so many fine previous days.

Friday’s 66 degree high was warmer than the 62 of Thursday. And if Friday did not stand out among its glittering April predecessors, it did seem worthy of standing among them.

Of the five days that came before, Friday was cooler than two, and warmer than three.

In the warm weather season, Washington humidity can be a torment but Friday’s hallmark seemed to be the crisp and invigorating dryness of the air.

A figure known as the dew point gives a measure of humidity. It indicates how low the temperature would need to sink to squeeze any water vapor out of the air.

On Friday, that condensation threshold seemed unattainable. At 1 p.m., with Washington in the low 60s, the dew point indicated that the air was so unusually dry, it would have to be freezing here before any water could be wrung from it.

So, at least through late afternoon, in a month known for showers, Washington went through another day without rain, and without the promise or threat of it.

In the past two weeks, the dry air that has discouraged perspiration and prompted psychic and physical vitality, has been unproductive in its moisture output.

Since April 12, Washington’s almost-desiccated atmosphere has yielded only .14 inches of rain.

With its vast expanses of often-blue skies, Friday was one more day in that long dry stretch.