After a brutal summer of downpours and tropical humidity, a beautiful long weekend is in store for the unofficial end of summer.

Then as Labor Day weekend wraps up, summer warmth and humidity is expected to continue with some 90-degree days for the first week of meteorological fall.

Ahead of that heat, gorgeous late summer weather with seasonable temps and comfortable humidity levels was predicted for the weekend.

“It’s looking pleasant through the weekend into early next week,” Bill Leatham, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald on Friday.

Temps are expected to gradually increase throughout the long weekend. Saturday’s high temps should be in the upper 70s to low 80s, followed by widespread 80s on Sunday and Monday.

As people flocked to the beach for the long weekend, there was still a risk for dangerous rip currents along Cape Cod and the Islands on Friday due to the leftover from Hurricane Franklin.

But the rip current risk and waves should be much lower over the weekend.

“It’s not looking like there will be a high rip current risk, but people should still be cautious and heed any local rip current warnings at beaches,” Leatham said.

Then next week as many kids head back for the first day of school, summer warmth and humidity should continue with temps eclipsing 90 degrees.

“With increasing humidity levels, it’s not out of the question that we potentially see near heat advisory levels,” Leatham said. “People should take the typical precautions with staying cool and hydrated.”

It will unfortunately become quite muggy again with dewpoints climbing back into the upper 60s and low 70s.

After Wednesday, the forecast is more unsettled. There’s a chance that the remnants of Hurricane Idalia hit the Northeast as a rain maker. Somewhat cooler temps are expected Thursday and Friday.

With the calendar turning to September, the National Weather Service declared that this incredibly rainy summer was the second wettest meteorological summer in Boston’s recorded history.

NWS Boston recorded a whopping 20.33 inches of rain over the last three months, which is about double the normal precipitation for June, July and August.

The wettest ever meteorological summer in the city’s recorded history was in 1955 when 24.89 inches of rain fell. Leatham noted that a lot of that rain in 1955 was from two hurricanes — Connie and Diane — that impacted the region in August 1955.