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Weekend on the Lakes: Calm Water and Upper 50s From Harding to Eufaula
What is the wind on Lake Harding and Lake Eufaula this weekend?
Wind is forecast at zero on Lake Harding and West Point Lake and about 5 miles an hour on Lake Eufaula this afternoon, with mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the upper 50s to 60.
Photo: Courtney RA / Pexels
If you have been waiting for flat water, this is the afternoon. The same sprawling dome of high pressure that dropped the valley below freezing before sunrise has also taken the wind out of the air. Forecasters in Peachtree City described winds light to near calm across the region this morning under clear skies, and the barometer in Columbus has climbed to 1027 millibars, up nearly 3 millibars in six hours. High pressure settling in like that leaves very little air moving at the surface.
On Lake Harding, the Chattahoochee reservoir north of Columbus on the Georgia-Alabama line, the forecast for 2 PM today is 59 degrees, mostly sunny, with wind at zero and no rain chance at all. Stand on a dock there this afternoon and the far bank will be reflected in the water.
Up at West Point Lake, between West Point and LaGrange, it is the same picture one degree cooler: 58 degrees at 2 PM, mostly sunny, calm, no rain. Small boats that have a rough ride once the wind passes about 15 miles an hour will have nothing to fight today on either lake.
Lake Eufaula is the warm end of the viewing area and the one with the biggest swing. At 8 AM the air there was 38 degrees, calm and mostly sunny. By 2 PM it reaches 60 with a 5 mile-an-hour breeze and no rain — a 22-degree climb in six hours. That is what very dry air does. The dew point in Columbus is sitting at 28 degrees, and dry air heats quickly in sunshine and dumps its heat quickly after dark.
One thing anglers should know about the river feeding those lakes: it has been running thin. Over the seven days ending Saturday, the Chattahoochee River in Columbus averaged 1,791 cubic feet per second against a normal of 3,137 for these dates, about 57 percent of normal. The Chattahoochee River at West Point averaged 1,710 cubic feet per second, 51 percent of its normal, and below Lake Eufaula, near Columbia, Alabama, the week averaged 2,349 against a normal of 4,547. Even Upatoi Creek near Columbus, which answers to rainfall rather than to dams, averaged 126 cubic feet per second against a normal of 183. These are week-long averages on purpose. The dams release water in pulses to make electricity, so any single reading can swing from a third of normal to double within a day.
Dress for two different days. A 38-degree start and a 60-degree afternoon means layers you can shed, and with the air this dry, shade will feel considerably colder than open sun. Watch the clock, too: sunset in Columbus is at 5:38 PM, daylight is down to 10 hours and 29 minutes, and we are losing about a minute and a half more each day until the solstice on December 21. The light goes early now, and it goes fast.
Lake by lake this weekend
Each day, 8 AM → 2 PM.
Lake Harding
north of Columbus, on the Georgia-Alabama line
Sun—→59°
Mostly Sunny · Dry · Calm
West Point Lake
LaGrange and West Point
Sun—→58°
Mostly Sunny · Dry · Calm
Lake Eufaula
Eufaula
Sun38°→60°
Mostly Sunny · Dry · Wind up to 5 mph
Forecast: National Weather Service, at each place. Wind and rain are the highest of the readings shown.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
58°Temperature
29°Dew point
33%Humidity
4 mphWind — northeast
30.24"Pressure
The next seven days
Day
High
Low
Rain
Conditions
TODAY
61°
36°
0%
Sunny
MON
61°
36°
0%
Mostly Sunny
TUE
66°
38°
0%
Sunny
WED
70°
41°
0%
Sunny
THU
73°
43°
0%
Sunny
FRI
73°
44°
0%
Sunny
SAT
75°
47°
4%
Sunny
Written by the CNAW2 weather desk from CNAW2 weather desk data. Last updated November 15, 2026 at 1:56 PM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
