Columbus, IN Weather Forecast
Bartholomew County, Indiana
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Columbus, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry evening, mostly cloudy
It is 52° with a dew point of 49°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly cloudy.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 42°. Tomorrow tops out near 51°.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
28–61°F across the weekThe week runs between 28° and 52°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Columbus, IN at a glance
Columbus is home to about 51,522 people in Bartholomew County, across 29 square miles. It ranks 19th by population of 175 places in Indiana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Edinburgh, 10 miles away.
- County
- Bartholomew County
- Population
- 51,522 2023 est.
- Land area
- 29 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,797
- Forecast point
- 39.2087°N, 85.9191°W
How well can the network see Columbus?
The nearest Doppler radar is KIND (Indianapolis, IN), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 2,600 ft above Columbus. Close enough to see rotation in the low part of a storm, where tornadoes form. Columbus is closer to its radar than 57% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KBAK (Columbus Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Columbus
- Edinburgh, IN10 mi
- Seymour, IN18 mi
- North Vernon, IN20 mi
- Franklin, IN21 mi
- Brownstown, IN24 mi
- Greensburg, IN24 mi
- Shelbyville, IN24 mi
- Whiteland, IN25 mi
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