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Columbus Weather: Upper 70s Tuesday Before a Freeze Reaches the Valley
When does the cold front hit Columbus GA this week?
A strong cold front crosses on Thursday, dropping Columbus from a high near 77 on Tuesday to a high of 60 with a low of 35 by Friday morning.
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This week comes in two halves. Walk the Chattahoochee RiverWalk in Columbus on Tuesday afternoon and it will feel like early October, with a high near 77 degrees — about 7 degrees above the normal high of 70 for this date at the Columbus Airport. Wednesday follows at 75 and Thursday at 72. Then the bottom drops out: Friday and Saturday top out near 60, with morning lows of 35 Friday and 34 Saturday in Columbus.
The turn comes from a strong cold front crossing the region Thursday. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Birmingham expect it to bring gusty winds and much colder air behind it, and their counterparts at Peachtree City say freezing overnight lows and widespread frost return this weekend. The rain that goes with the system looks like it will stay mostly across north Georgia late Wednesday into early Thursday. Here in Columbus, Auburn, LaGrange and Eufaula, the seven-day forecast never gets a rain chance above 5 percent.
That continues a dry stretch. Columbus has measured 0.07 inches of rain this month, against a normal of 1.04 inches by this date. The year as a whole is still ahead — 43.67 inches since January 1, compared with a normal of 41.11 — but almost none of it has fallen lately, and afternoon humidity this week drops into the 30s.
If you garden anywhere from Hamilton and Manchester to LaGrange and Lumpkin, Thursday evening is your deadline. Soil six centimeters down is still near 57 degrees, so plants in the ground hold warmth longer than pots do; anything in a container on a porch in Opelika or Phenix City will chill much faster and should come inside.
One more thing about Friday: the sun sets at 5:42 PM, and we are losing about a minute and a half of daylight a day. The cold is arriving at a time of year when the drive home is already dark.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
49°Temperature
43°Dew point
81%Humidity
2 mphWind — west
30.11"Pressure
The next seven days
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High
Low
Rain
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TONIGHT
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45°
0%
Partly Cloudy
TODAY
77°
48°
1%
Mostly Sunny
WED
75°
53°
5%
Sunny
THU
72°
41°
5%
Mostly Sunny
FRI
60°
35°
0%
Sunny
SAT
60°
34°
0%
Sunny
SUN
64°
38°
3%
Sunny
Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
