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Frost and Freeze Through Sunday, Then a Dry Warm-Up to the Mid 70s
Will it freeze this weekend in Columbus and the Chattahoochee Valley?
Yes — a Freeze Warning covers the Georgia side of the viewing area Sunday morning, with lows near 35 in Columbus and 31 at West Point Lake before a dry warm-up to 75 by Friday.
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A thermometer can read 36 degrees and your lawn can still turn white, and the National Weather Service forecasters in Peachtree City took a moment this morning to explain why. Official temperatures are measured about two meters off the ground, roughly head height. On a clear night with little wind, the coldest air sinks and pools right at the surface, so the grass blades can sit about four degrees colder than the number on the gauge. That is how a Frost Advisory ends up posted in towns where the forecast low never quite reaches 32.
That is the setup for the next two mornings. A Freeze Warning covers west and north Georgia this morning, with a Frost Advisory for the rest of the Georgia side, and for Sunday morning the Freeze Warning goes areawide. The Birmingham office has central Alabama under Freeze Warnings for this morning and again for late tonight into Sunday.
The numbers back it up. Columbus bottoms out near 33 today and 35 Sunday, against a normal low of 46 for this date. At 8 AM Sunday it is 31 at West Point Lake, 32 at Callaway Gardens and on the Pine Mountain ridge at F.D. Roosevelt State Park, 33 at Lake Harding, 35 along the RiverWalk in Columbus and Phenix City, and 40 at Chewacla near Auburn, where the air never gets as cold as the higher ground north of here.
The cold is dry, not stormy. The dew point in Columbus is down around 32, the sky is clear, and a broad area of high pressure is sliding in behind the departing storm system. From here it is one direction only: 60 Monday, 65 Tuesday, 69 Wednesday, 73 Thursday and 75 Friday, with rain chances of no more than 2 percent all week.
One thing worth knowing before you panic about the garden: the soil a couple of inches down is still 49 degrees. This kind of cold hurts what is standing above the ground, not the roots below it, so cover the tender pots tonight and leave the digging for the 70s next weekend.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
59°Temperature
27°Dew point
29%Humidity
10 mphWind — north
30.12"Pressure
The next seven days
Day
High
Low
Rain
Conditions
TODAY
60°
33°
0%
Sunny
SUN
60°
36°
0%
Widespread Frost then Mostly Sunny
MON
60°
38°
0%
Partly Sunny
TUE
66°
39°
0%
Sunny
WED
70°
42°
0%
Sunny
THU
73°
45°
1%
Sunny
FRI
74°
46°
1%
Sunny
Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
