VALDOSTA, Ga. — South Georgia should see a fairly quiet week on the weather scene, which may not be entirely good, according to at least one forecaster.

Skies should be partly sunny for most of the week with highs ranging from the mid to upper 80s, according to the National Weather Service’s Valdosta forecast.

“(The week) should be relatively uneventful,” said Ricardo Humphries, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Tallahassee, Fla., office.

Daytime highs are running above normal, with the usual average for Valdosta for this time of year around 79 degrees, Humphries said.

He said there would be a slight chance of showers — 20 percent — Wednesday and Thursday.

Rain is where the flip side of sunny skies and warm temperatures occurs. South Georgia is running a sizable rainfall deficit for 2017, said Frank Strait, senior meteorologist for the private forecasting firm AccuWeather.

“The first three weeks of the year were fairly wet,” he said. “Then someone turned the hose off.”

Since Feb. 1, Valdosta has only seen 4.32 inches of rain — less than half of the normal 10.7 inches, Strait said.

A cold front that might otherwise bring showers to the area is expected to stall out to the north early in the week, he said. The soonest he said the area can expect a real chance of rain comes Sunday and Monday, when a “fairly substantial” storm system is expected to move across the Southeast.

While neither meteorologist expected severe weather during the work week, Strait said the storms coming through Sunday and Monday could bring thunderstorms and the potential for high winds.

“And the storms could bring rain, and we need that,” he said.

Terry Richards is senior reporter at The Valdosta Daily Times.