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Tropics Quiet Into November: Hurricane Center Sees No Gulf Development
Is there a tropical storm or hurricane headed for the Gulf Coast this week?
No — the National Hurricane Center's Monday outlook says tropical cyclone formation is not expected anywhere in the Atlantic, Caribbean or Gulf over the next seven days, so Columbus, Phenix City and Eufaula have nothing tropical to track into early November.
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Stand on a dock at Lake Eufaula on a late-October morning, with the water flat and the air barely moving, and the Gulf is somewhere off to the south past the Florida line. For most of the summer and fall that southern horizon is the one a weather desk checks first. Right now there is nothing on it.
The National Hurricane Center's outlook, issued at 2 AM Monday for the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf, says tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next seven days. That window covers the rest of October and the first days of November, Halloween included. It is about as plain as the Hurricane Center ever gets, and with the Atlantic season running through November 30, it takes the last full week of October off the board for Columbus, Phenix City, Eufaula and everywhere between.
That matters here even though nobody in Cuthbert or Lumpkin is boarding windows. The Valley sits far enough inland that a Gulf storm does its damage here as inland wind and days of rain rather than surge, and those systems can still reach Auburn, Opelika and Tuskegee with plenty left in them. A quiet outlook means the rain that does arrive over the next week will come from ordinary fronts and upper-level systems, not from anything with a name.
What is interesting is where our weather goes looking for moisture next. The equatorial Pacific is running a very strong El Nino, with the index at 2.16. Warm water out there feeds energy into the subtropical jet stream, the fast river of air that runs across the southern United States in winter. In past El Nino winters that has usually meant a wetter and often cooler cold season along the Gulf South, more storm systems crossing the region, and a raised risk of severe weather in the Gulf states. In short, the source of our rain shifts from the south to the west.
The Climate Prediction Center has already leaned that way. For November through January it puts the odds of above-normal precipitation at 60 percent across this area, with no lean either way on temperature. February through April is a coin flip in the outlook, with no signal in either direction.
We start that stretch already wet. Columbus has recorded 43.64 inches of rain this year against a normal of 39.49 inches by this date, roughly four inches ahead. The rivers are sitting about where they should be: over the seven days through October 24, the Chattahoochee River in Columbus averaged 2,421 cubic feet per second against a normal of 2,833, the river at West Point averaged 2,570, and below Lake Eufaula near Columbia, Alabama, it ran 5,283 against a normal of 4,811. Upatoi Creek near Columbus averaged 131 against 151. Because the dams release in pulses, those have to be read as week-long averages, never as one afternoon's number.
So there is nothing to watch in the Gulf and nothing to move off the dock at Lake Harding or West Point Lake for. The useful thing to do with a quiet week is the boring thing: clear the gutters in Hamilton and LaGrange, check where water runs off your driveway, and know that the wet part of this year's story is probably still ahead.
Right now in Columbus, Georgia
55°Temperature
46°Dew point
73%Humidity
5 mphWind — north
30.29"Pressure
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Written by the CNAW 2 weather desk from CNAW 2 weather desk data. Last updated October 26, 2026 at 3:30 AM Eastern. Covering Columbus and Phenix City, Auburn–Opelika, LaGrange, Eufaula and the rest of the 19-county CNAW viewing area.
