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Friday Night Lights Forecast: Dry, Clear and the Coldest Football Air of the Fall
What will the weather be for Friday night high school football in the Chattahoochee Valley?
Friday night football across west Georgia and east Alabama will be dry and mostly clear, with kickoff temperatures from 43 degrees in Greenville and LaFayette to 49 in Columbus and Lanett.
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Settle into the stands at Kinnett Stadium in Columbus on Friday evening and the air will already feel different from the last few weeks. The rain chance is zero at every school in the viewing area, skies are clear to mostly clear, and the cold air the National Weather Service has been advertising all week is in place. Kickoff readings run from 43 degrees in the coolest towns to 49 in the warmest, and two hours later most of the area is sitting in the low 40s.
The chilliest seats will be in Greenville, where Greenville High plays, and in LaFayette, home of LaFayette and Chambers Academy. Both towns are near 43 degrees around kickoff and 40 by the fourth quarter, with a 10 mph breeze that will find any exposed top row. Not far behind are Valley, where Valley and Beulah play, and Clayton, home of Barbour County, both at 44 and dropping to 41 — though Clayton's wind stays light at about 5 mph under a clear sky.
Columbus is the warm end of the scale. Around the city, where Shaw, Hardaway, Columbus, Spencer, Kendrick, Jordan, Carver, Northside, Calvary Christian, Pacelli and Brookstone play, it will be 49 degrees around kickoff and 45 by the fourth quarter, with about a 10 mph breeze. Lanett matches that 49 at kickoff for Lanett and Springwood, but it falls faster, down to 43 late — the biggest drop of the night anywhere in the area.
Across the Auburn-Opelika area the wind is the gentlest, around 5 mph. Auburn and Lee-Scott start near 45 and ease to 43; Opelika and Beauregard go 45 to 42. Smiths Station and Glenwood hold 45 to 43, and Central in Phenix City is a touch milder at 46, settling to 43. Russell County at Seale runs 45 to 42 under a clear sky, as does Eufaula. Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, along with Loachapoka and Notasulga, stays near 45 at kickoff and 43 late.
Around LaGrange, where LaGrange, Troup County and LaGrange Academy play, it will be 45 at kickoff and 41 by the fourth quarter, with a 10 mph breeze. Callaway in Hogansville matches it almost exactly, and Manchester runs 45 to 42.
The rural Georgia counties south and east of Columbus stay in the upper 40s the longest. Chattahoochee County in Cusseta and Schley County in Ellaville are near 48 at kickoff and still 45 late. Harris County in Hamilton starts at 48 and cools to 43. Marion County in Buena Vista, Stewart County in Lumpkin, Randolph Clay in Cuthbert, Quitman County in Georgetown, Webster County in Preston and Taylor County in Butler all begin around 48 and finish in the mid 40s. Central in Talbotton is a degree cooler at 47.
So: a real jacket at kickoff, a blanket on the bleachers by halftime, and gloves if you are sitting in LaGrange, Greenville or LaFayette. Leave the umbrella in the car. With the sky that clear, whatever warmth is left in the air escapes straight up after dark, and the walk back to the car will be colder than the opening kickoff was.
Friday night, school by school
Around kickoff → by the fourth quarter, on each school’s own clock.
No school or town by that name in the viewing area.
Central time in Alabama, Eastern in Georgia. Start times vary; check with the school. Forecast: National Weather Service.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
52°Temperature
49°Dew point
90%Humidity
4 mphWind — west
29.82"Pressure
The next seven days
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High
Low
Rain
Conditions
TODAY
71°
40°
0%
Sunny
FRI
59°
35°
0%
Sunny
SAT
59°
33°
0%
Areas Of Frost then Sunny
SUN
61°
37°
1%
Widespread Frost then Mostly Sunny
MON
60°
38°
8%
Partly Sunny
TUE
62°
38°
8%
Mostly Sunny
WED
66°
40°
2%
Sunny
Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
