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Columbus Rain Report: A Nearly Dry November, but the Year Runs Above Normal
How much rain has Columbus GA had this November?
Columbus, Georgia had measured just 0.07 inches of rain in November through Saturday, about an inch and a half below the normal 1.68 inches for this point in the month, though the year as a whole is still running nearly two inches above normal.
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Walk the RiverWalk between Columbus and Phenix City this afternoon and the leaves underfoot crackle rather than squish. The rain gauge at the Columbus Airport, where the area's official readings are taken, explains why. Through Saturday, Columbus had collected 0.07 inches of rain for the month of November. Normal by this point is 1.68 inches, so the month is running about an inch and a half short with half of it gone.
The dry stretch goes back further than that. Since September 1, Columbus has measured 5.77 inches against a normal of 7.80 — a shortfall of about two inches across the whole fall. The surprising part is that the calendar year is still in the black: 43.67 inches since January 1, compared with a normal of 41.75 by this date. Nearly two inches of surplus, almost all of it banked before autumn arrived.
Saturday was cold as well as dry. Columbus topped out at 60 and bottomed out at 37, each of those 9 degrees below the normal high of 68 and normal low of 46 for mid-November.
That changes this week, in one direction only. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City expect strong high pressure to build across the Southeast with a ridge aloft, and sinking air under a ridge dries the sky out. Columbus stays near 61 today and Monday, reaches 66 Tuesday, 70 Wednesday, 73 Thursday and Friday and 75 on Saturday, with no meaningful rain chance anywhere in that stretch.
So if you have put in pansies or winter greens from LaGrange down to Hamilton, Cuthbert and Eufaula, the water will have to come from a hose this week. The longer odds favor relief: the Climate Prediction Center puts the chance of a wetter-than-normal November through January here at 60 percent, with a very strong El Niño feeding storm systems along the Gulf South.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
58°Temperature
30°Dew point
34%Humidity
3 mphWind — northeast
30.26"Pressure
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Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
