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Valley Cold Snap: Frost Mornings This Weekend and a Very Dry November
How cold will it get this weekend in Columbus, Georgia?
Columbus drops to about 33 degrees Saturday morning with frost likely, and afternoon highs hold in the upper 50s to low 60s through the weekend.
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Thursday is the warm side of the change. Columbus should reach about 71 degrees under a nearly cloudless sky, close to the normal high of 70 for November 12, and Wednesday finished with an average temperature of exactly 58 degrees, dead on normal. That is the last ordinary day for a while.
A cold front slides through the area this afternoon, and a second, stronger one follows tonight. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City say the air arriving behind it will be the coldest so far this fall, with afternoon highs running 8 to 10 degrees below average through the weekend. The Birmingham office, which covers the Alabama side, is blunt about what follows: gusty winds first, then widespread frost and freezing conditions through the weekend.
Here is what that looks like at home. Friday tops out near 59 degrees in Columbus after a 35-degree start. Saturday morning is the cold one, with the low near 33 and frost expected; at 8 AM the shoreline at West Point Lake near LaGrange is forecast at 34 degrees, and Callaway Gardens at Pine Mountain at 36. Sunday morning brings widespread frost before the afternoon recovers to about 61.
If you still have tomatoes, peppers or potted ferns outside anywhere from Hamilton to Eufaula, Friday night is the night to cover them or bring them in. The ground itself is still warm. Soil a couple of inches down near Columbus is running about 60 degrees, because dirt gains and loses heat far more slowly than air does. Roots will be fine. It is the tender growth above ground that burns on a frosty morning.
Do not count on rain to water anything in, either. Columbus has picked up 0.07 of an inch this month against a normal of 1.28 by this date, even while the year as a whole is still about two and a third inches ahead of normal. The forecast stays dry through Sunday, and the next modest rain chance does not show up until Monday.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
52°Temperature
49°Dew point
90%Humidity
4 mphWind — west
29.82"Pressure
The next seven days
Day
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.
