Last week brought Seattle a brush with fall weather.

This week, we’re back to summer.

Kiss those rainy days goodbye — Seattle’s looking “hot and dry” as the days get increasingly warmer and sunnier into the weekend, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Michalski.

For now, we’re riding out the wave of last week’s cool weather and a storm that had doused the city with nearly an inch of rain, Michalski said. Tuesday and Wednesday start out with temperatures “just shy of average” for this time of year with highs in the mid-70s.

Those readings will climb a couple degrees higher into the upper 70s on Thursday. By Friday, we’ll be back to the 80s, with temperatures lingering in the lower 80s through the weekend into early next week.

Not the hottest we’ve seen this month, but this

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