text:  Back now on America in the Morning, beginning in the west, your AccuWeather.com forecast from LaTroy Thornton. A drying trend takes hold today for parts of the west that were rather active on Thursday with zones of high pressure arriving in both the southwest and the interior northwest, able to scour out some of the clouds and pop up thunderstorms that dotted the high terrain from the four corners to interior sections of the northwest, even bringing some sunshine to the Pacific Northwest today.