Temperatures will be on a roller coaster ride across the East this week as mild air surges north Monday and Tuesday before another blast of Canadian air moves in for the middle part of the week.

After a weekend featuring high temperatures in the 20s and low 30s from Boston to New York City and Washington, D.C., temperatures will be on the uptick Monday and Tuesday.

High pressure at the surface sprawled out over the East will shift off the coast by Monday, sending a surge of milder air northward from the Gulf region.

High temperatures will rise into the 40s for cities such as Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., while 30s make a comeback in New York City and Boston, Mass.

Southerly flow ahead of an approaching cold front will send temperatures even higher come Tuesday. Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia will likely break into the 50s while New York and Boston rise into the 40s.

Below is a chart of the expected high temperatures Monday through Wednesday in the East:

Along with the mild air comes precipitation as expected. However, this event will feature rain for many of the big cities of the East once again.

As mentioned before, a front will approach from the west early this week and this front will bring another round of rain to the big cities along the I-95 corridor Monday night into Tuesday.

While much of the East gets wet from this storm system, residents will be happy that it’s not all falling as snow. However, there is still enough cold air in place over interior parts of the Northeast which could lead to some icy precipitation at the onset. The best chance for some wintry precipitation in the East lies from northern Pennsylvania through northern Maine Monday night.

As temperatures warm over most of the area, the wintry threat could persist into Tuesday across northern New England.

This cold front will pass through the East Tuesday night, thereby, ushering in a much colder air mass located behind it.

Cold, northerly winds will knock temperatures back down below normal for much of the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast by Wednesday. In fact, many cities from Boston to Baltimore will experience just a day of falling temperatures Wednesday with early morning highs.

The cold air likely won’t be in fast enough to change the rain over to snow before ending; except for areas west of the Appalachians where another round of lake-enhanced snows will begin Tuesday night and continue through Wednesday.

The roller coaster ride will continue through next weekend as it currently looks as though temperatures will rise back up to above normal for much of the East by the weekend.