COLD FRONT

A cold front comes through around 6:10 PM

When does the next front move through Columbus, Georgia?

A cold front comes through around 6:10 PM — drier air behind it — the dew point drops about 7 degrees.

Forecast air temperature across the Southeast. Map: CNAW 2, built from NOAA data on a USGS base.

The barometer bottoms out around 6:10 PM, 1.2 millibars below where it sits now, and the wind swings from the west round to the northwest behind it. The dew point falls about 7 degrees after it passes, which is what makes the air feel different rather than just cooler.

Why it is doing this

A front is not weather in itself — it is the boundary between two air masses, and everything you notice is the swap happening.

There is a cold front about 12 hours out. What you feel as it goes past is the wind swinging round and the air drying — about 7 degrees off the dew point behind it.

The barometer has hardly moved in six hours — up 0.5 millibars — which is why nothing much is changing.

The wind is out of the northwest at about 4 miles an hour, so the air over us is coming down out of the continent behind a front, which is the driest air we get.

Right now in Columbus, Georgia

57°Temperature

48°Dew point

72%Humidity

4 mphWind — northwest

29.92"Pressure

The next seven days

Day	High	Low	Rain	Conditions
TONIGHT	—	58°	0%	Clear
TODAY	83°	58°	0%	Sunny
TUE	86°	62°	0%	Sunny
WED	90°	68°	1%	Sunny
THU	89°	70°	12%	Sunny
FRI	88°	71°	54%	Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
SAT	86°	70°	58%	Showers And Thunderstorms Likely

Written by the CNAW 2 weather desk from CNAW weather desk data. Last updated September 28, 2026 at 6:10 AM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.

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