Marine Weather and Tide Forecast for Columbus, GA

SHORT TERM
(Today through Thursday)
Issued at 128 AM EDT Wed May 13 2026

Mostly dry conditions through Friday as Northwest flow reigns supreme. There is the potential for a few small showers (maybe a rumble of thunder; low chance) as a dry front moves into the area from the northwest today. The greatest chances for this will be in the northeast GA mountains and areas where precip can decouple from topography. Timing wise, greatest chances will be later in the afternoon to evening.

After that, conditions clear out with temperatures briefly dipping Thursday, before an upswing into the weekend. Model performance on wind gusts and dewpoints have been less than stellar, so small adjustments have been made in the gridded forecast to account for this.

LONG TERM
(Thursday night through Tuesday)
Issued at 128 AM EDT Wed May 13 2026

High pressure over the area continues into the extended periods keeping things dry through day 7. Cooler temps to begin the extended periods but that will be short lived. Fri morning lows will be in the 40s to lower 50s with temps beginning to rebound as High temps get up into the lower to middle 80s. By Sat morning a week wave moves SE out of the Central Plains and into KY/TN. We will see some increase moisture across the state but still not expecting any precip. Mainly increased cloud cover but temps will get up into the 80s to near 90. These elevated temps continue Sun and into Mon with no precip in site.

These warm/dry conditions going into the weekend, may bring back some fire weather concerns. Most of the state has received enough rain to reduce some of the risk that we were facing but we still need to monitor the situation. Please continue to monitor the Fire Weather Forecast as we approach the middle of the week for potential critical fire weather.

AVIATION
(18Z TAFS)
Issued at 150 PM EDT Wed May 13 2026

VFR conditions to prevail, with primarily FEW-SCT cigs at 4-6kft thru 00Z. Tomorrow, expect SKC. Cannot rule out VCSH for RYY/PDK later this evening, but confidence currently too low for TAF mention. Winds will remain generally out of the NW/NNW, and may be VRB at times this afternoon. Speeds will increase overnight into tomorrow morning, to 7-12kts with gusts to 20-22kts into the aftn.

//ATL Confidence
18Z Update
Low-medium confidence evening SHRA chances.
High confidence all other elements.

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PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
Athens 81 56 77 48 / 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 81 58 75 53 / 0 0 0 0 Blairsville 75 47 68 42 / 10 20 0 0 Cartersville 81 52 75 46 / 0 10 0 0 Columbus 82 59 78 50 / 0 0 0 0 Gainesville 79 55 75 49 / 0 10 0 0 Macon 81 59 79 50 / 10 0 0 0 Rome 81 51 75 45 / 0 10 0 0 Peachtree City 81 56 76 48 / 0 0 0 0 Vidalia 81 61 81 54 / 20 0 0 0

FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
None.