Boston is in for a couple bouts of rain and moderately warmer temperatures over the next week, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

“We’re looking at a period of wet weather to start,” said NWS meteorologist Bryce Williams. “So we’ll see rain overnight (Sunday), and continuing for pretty much all of Monday, before we dry out overnight for a drier rest of the week for the most part.”

After Monday, Boston is expected to see drier, sunnier days through Thursday night, according to forecasts. On Thursday, there is potential for “our next wet weather system moving in late in the evening,” Williams said.

“So the next chance of rain after Monday is going to be the second half of the week,” said Williams. “Right now it’s looking more like a Thursday night to Friday rain situation.”

Throughout the week, highs are expected to remain slightly below than the low 60s temperatures the region saw over the weekend, NWS forecasts show. Highs are expected to remain in the 50s throughout much of the work week.

“As far as where we are temperature wise, as we’re getting into mid-to-late March, we’re getting into those stretches where we’re starting to expect to see these warm temperatures,” said Williams. “There’s excessively warm in the near future, but we’re looking pretty seasonable and much like we saw last week. But we’re not going to see quite the warm up that we enjoyed for a couple of days last week.”

Temperatures are expected to kick off a little higher, with a high of 59 degrees forecasted on Monday, before dipping slightly lower.

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“We’ll have that wind come off the water by Tuesday and keep us down in the low 50s for high temperatures for through at least the middle of the week,” said Williams. “And then potentially warming up later on.”

Preliminary NWS forecasts show temperatures may warm up briefly to the high 50s on Thursday but dip to highs in the upper 40s again Friday heading into the weekend.

A cyclist rides along the Charles River, Sunday. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)