After an absolutely gorgeous spring weekend, a very pleasant week of weather is expected for the region — with a chance for temperatures to approach 80 degrees by the end of the workweek.

A cold front should cool temps a bit midweek, but a warming trend later in the week could bring temps close to 80 degrees by Thursday and Friday across Massachusetts.

Following some rain showers overnight, things should clear out Monday morning.

“We’ll be starting the week off pretty nice,” Kyle Pederson, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald on Sunday. “It should be mostly sunny with a high of 73 degrees.”

Then a backdoor cold front arrives on Tuesday, dropping temps into the lower 60s. Wednesday’s temps should be in the upper 60s.

“The backdoor front coming through will keep us a bit cooler, but no rain is associated with that,” Pederson said.

Then the temps are expected to warm back up into the 70s on Thursday and Friday, above normal for this time of year when average high temps are 64 degrees.

“No major precipitation is to be seen right now,” Pederson said. “Nothing major coming our way.”

While mostly dry, there is a chance for some showers and thunderstorms sometime late week or early next weekend. But no single day is shaping up to be a complete washout.

More than 50% of the Bay State is considered abnormally dry, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The areas that are abnormally dry are eastern Massachusetts, the Cape and the Islands.

The Drought Monitor’s forecast reads, “Following a very wet end to April along the East Coast, drier weather is forecast to be accompanied by a gradual warming trend across the East.”