Holy Cross and Tri-Valley fans follow the ball as it pops into the air during the PIAA Class 1A first-round game at the University of Scranton’s Magis Field on Monday. This week’s weather is providing an abrupt turnaround from what was by all accounts a wet, chilly May. Total rainfall for the month at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport was 7.58 inches — more than twice the norm of 3.26 inches, according to the National Weather Service. In fact, it was the third-wettest May on the books; the record was 8.02 inches in May 1989. “If you thought it was a wet month, it was,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines said. There was at least a trace of rain on 23 of May’s 31 days — the wettest being May 9, with 1.69 inches. It was also an unusually cool month: The average high temperature for May was 67.5 degrees, nearly a full 5 degrees below the normal monthly high of 72.2. “The only reason it wasn’t worse,” Kines said, “was that early in the month it was warmer.” The good news: The turning of the calendar page seems to have accompanied a turn of the weather page. Temperatures are expected to approach 80 on Tuesday, according to AccuWeather, and reach the upper 80s on Wednesday and Thursday, with little chance of rain until Thursday afternoon. “The first part of June we’re going to take two steps forward and jump right into summer,” Kines said. “I’m sure a lot of people are going to be happy about that. But I’m sure by the end of the week you’ll have a few people complaining about it.”