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Friday Night Lights Forecast: Jacket Weather at Every Stadium in the Valley
What will the weather be like for Friday night high school football in Columbus and Auburn?
Friday night across the CNAW viewing area will be clear and dry, with kickoff temperatures near 51 in Columbus, 47 in Auburn and 46 in LaFayette and Valley, falling about 5 degrees by the fourth quarter.
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Friday night is the kind of football weather this area gets only a few times a year. The sky will be clear from Tuskegee to Talbotton, the rain chance is zero in every town on our map, and temperatures around kickoff will be in the upper 40s to right around 50. By the fourth quarter most of the Valley is in the low 40s. Sit on a metal bleacher at Kinnett Stadium for three hours and you will feel every degree of that.
The drop is fast because the air behind Thursday's front is dry and the sky will be clear. With no clouds to hold heat near the ground, the warmth of the day escapes straight up after sunset, and most towns lose about 5 degrees between 7 and 9 o'clock.
Columbus is the warm end of the scale. Around the stadiums where Shaw, Hardaway, Columbus, Spencer, Kendrick, Jordan, Carver, Northside, Calvary Christian, Pacelli and Brookstone play, it will be 51 around kickoff and 46 by the fourth quarter, with a 10 mph breeze. Cusseta, home of Chattahoochee County, matches it at 51 falling to 45.
The coldest sidelines in the viewing area are at 46 around kickoff and 41 late: LaFayette and Chambers Academy in LaFayette, Valley and Beulah in Valley, Greenville in Meriwether County, and Barbour County over in Clayton. Those are the towns where a blanket beats a jacket.
Around LaGrange, where LaGrange, Troup County and LaGrange Academy play, look for 48 around kickoff and 42 by the fourth quarter with a 10 mph breeze. It is the same story in Hogansville, home of Callaway, at 47 and 42, and in Manchester at 47 and 43. Hamilton, where Harris County plays, sits at 48 and 44 with that same breeze. Those four towns are where the wind will nag at you; everywhere else it is 5 mph or less.
On the Alabama side, Auburn and Lee-Scott in Auburn will be 47 around kickoff and 43 late. Opelika and Beauregard see 47 and 42, Smiths Station and Glenwood 48 and 43, Central in Phenix City 48 and 43, Russell County in Seale 47 and 42, and Lanett and Springwood the mildest of the group at 49 and 44. Tuskegee, where Booker T. Washington plays, has the stillest air anywhere in the viewing area, essentially calm at 48 and 43. Eufaula holds at 48 and 43.
South and east of Columbus the numbers stay in the 50s at kickoff. Stewart County in Lumpkin, Taylor County in Butler, Schley County in Ellaville, Webster County in Preston and Marion County in Buena Vista all come in at 50 around kickoff and 45 late. Central-Talbotton reads 49 and 44, and Randolph Clay in Cuthbert and Quitman County in Georgetown both sit at 48 and 44.
What to bring: no umbrella and no rain gear, a real jacket for the first half, and a hoodie, gloves or a blanket for the second. A seat cushion is worth more than it sounds on a 42-degree aluminum bench. Leave the jacket in the car afterward, because Saturday morning in Columbus starts near 33.
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
49°Temperature
46°Dew point
91%Humidity
3 mphWind — southwest
30.06"Pressure
The next seven days
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High
Low
Rain
Conditions
TODAY
73°
54°
4%
Partly Sunny
THU
71°
40°
0%
Sunny
FRI
60°
35°
0%
Sunny
SAT
59°
33°
0%
Sunny
SUN
61°
38°
2%
Sunny
MON
57°
39°
27%
Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers
TUE
60°
39°
20%
Slight Chance Rain Showers
Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 11, 2026 at 8:42 AM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
