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Valley Week Ahead: Upper 70s Through Wednesday, Then a 59-Degree Friday
What is the weather this week in Columbus GA and when does the cold front arrive?
Columbus, Georgia stays in the mid to upper 70s Monday through Wednesday before a cold front on Thursday drops Friday's high to 59 degrees with a morning low near 35.
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Tuesday afternoon on the RiverWalk in Columbus and Phenix City is going to feel borrowed from early October. The forecast high is 77 degrees under mostly sunny skies, and the National Weather Service in Peachtree City expects Tuesday and Wednesday to run 5 to 10 degrees above average across this part of Georgia. For comparison, the normal high in Columbus for today is 71 degrees.
The reason is simple enough: the jet stream stays well north of us for the first half of the week, so our air mass just sits here and warms in the sunshine. Monday reaches 76 in Columbus, Tuesday 77, Wednesday 76, and the rain chance on each of those days is 3 percent or less. Auburn, Opelika, LaGrange and Eufaula all share in it.
Thursday is the turn. Forecasters in Peachtree City say a storm system arrives that day with the best rain chances staying over north Georgia, which leaves Columbus at only a 9 percent chance. The Birmingham office is blunter about what follows: a strong cold front with significantly cooler air behind it. Friday's high in Columbus is 59 with a morning low of 35, and Saturday looks the same, 59 and 34. That is an 18-degree drop in afternoon temperature between Tuesday and Friday.
It has also been a notably dry stretch. Columbus has measured 0.07 inches of rain this month through Sunday, against a normal of 0.92 inches by this date, and 5.77 inches since September 1 against a normal of 7.04. The year as a whole is still ahead, 43.71 inches against about 40.93 normal.
The top few inches of soil are still near 58 degrees, so the ground has not given up on fall yet. If you have potted plants on the porch in Hamilton or herbs hanging on in Opelika, this week's warmth is borrowed time.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
62°Temperature
44°Dew point
51%Humidity
6 mphWind — northwest
30.05"Pressure
The next seven days
Day
High
Low
Rain
Conditions
TONIGHT
—
43°
0%
Partly Cloudy
MON
76°
43°
0%
Mostly Sunny
TUE
77°
46°
1%
Mostly Sunny
WED
76°
50°
3%
Mostly Sunny
THU
72°
43°
9%
Mostly Sunny
FRI
59°
35°
1%
Sunny
SAT
59°
34°
0%
Sunny
Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
