Columbia, MO Weather Forecast
Boone County, Missouri
Seven-day outlook
41–76°F across the weekThe week runs between 42° and 76°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Friday is the coolest day in it. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 61%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Columbia forecast
Columbia sits at 38.9473°N, 92.3264°W in Boone County, Missouri. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Boone County
- Coordinates
- 38.9473°N, 92.3264°W
- Population
- 129,330 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 67.31 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Columbia, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Columbia?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLSX (St. Louis, MO), 90 miles to the E. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Columbia its center is about 8,200 ft above ground. At that range the beam overshoots the layer where severe weather organizes. The radar is describing the middle of the storm, not its base , which is why a warning for Columbia can look unsupported on the mosaic and still be right. Trust the warning over the picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KCOU · Columbia Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 11 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Missouri observing network as of this build.
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