Greetings and welcome to the Columbus County weather update for Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
Quiet… and unseasonably warm… conditions will continue across the county through Saturday. A backdoor cold front (called “backdoor” because it drops down from the north/east instead of sweeping from west-to-east) will sink southward over the area late tonight. This won’t really bring much “sensible weather” with it… we’ll have a wind shift and our temperatures tonight and Thursday will be a degree or two cooler than today.
Then the front lifts back to the north as a warm front, allowing a robust flow of warm and rather humid air to push in for Friday, Friday night, and Saturday. Depending on how much sunshine we get, high temperatures may flirt with the 80-degree mark! On the whole, we’ll see more cloudiness than sunshine through the period.
Cold front pushes across the area Saturday night. There is a bit of variance in the modeling as for the frontal passage, but I believe it’ll come after supper… probably during the evening hours. The frontal passage itself may bring a few light rain showers, but that’ll be just about it as most of the dynamics are shunted farther to the north. The deeper, cold trough won’t pinwheel through until later Sunday, though, so while we’ll be cooler on Sunday, the real colder air (actually “seasonable” air) moves in on Monday.
From there, modeling suggests we’re dry through much of next week with seasonable to slightly above-normal temps.
Here’s your official forecast for Columbus County, North Carolina!
–Meteorologist Christopher Cawley
www.CarolinaWeatherWatch.com
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