A gray, drizzly Friday kicked off a weekend that is likely to see a bit of a dry period and then some more rain — all of which will lead to an early work week that will see a bit of a dry period and then some more rain.

Rinse. Repeat. For the Bay Area, it’s more of the same.

“A couple of these systems out ahead of us (on the calendar) have started to trend drier,” National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Gass said. “But it’s still going to rain. It’s too far out time-wise to know when there’s going to be a significant change.”

A brief warmup earlier this week set off a bit of a false indicator that the inclement weather may be gone. Gass said that in actuality, the current weather pattern, which began dropping rain into the region on Thursday, is in keeping with how many early spring patterns behave.

That means lingering showers were likely for most of Friday; a mostly dry Saturday will follow, before the next rain probably starts to fall Saturday night and lasts into Sunday, according to Gass. A cold, cloudy, dry day is expected Monday into Tuesday, with a storm moving over the region Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Those amounts (Friday into Saturday) generally will be less than 15-hundredths of an inch for the Bay Area, and maybe one-third of an inch in the North Bay,” Gass said. “We still have decent rainfall amounts possible for Tuesday into Wednesday, but again, I expect those to trend downward.”

The reason, he said, is that the low pressure has dipped deeper than originally anticipated, thus shifting the entire system further to the south. That shift has begun to show on European weather forecast models that are now forecasting considerably less rain and is also beginning to appear on some U.S. models, Gass said.

Light snow is expected to fall in the Sierra Nevada through early Saturday, mainly over its highest passes. The weather service said 4-6 inches of snow are expected in areas of Donner Summit and other locations above 5,600 feet. Other areas of Donner Summit are expected to receive 2-3 inches, while Truckee is not expected to receive more than an inch.

The temperatures continued to hover with highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 40s, and that won’t change over the next week, Gass said. Dangerous waves that may break up to 30 feet also will continue along the coast, and the weather service extended a high surf advisory through Friday.