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OTW Weather Center — Columbus, OH, United States

Current Conditions

64°F

Clear

Feels Like: 64°F

Humidity: 68%

Wind: 5 mph from 110°

Dew Point: 54°F

Updated just now

7-Day Forecast

Tonight
55°F — Mostly Clear
Tuesday
88°F — Mostly Sunny
Tuesday Night
69°F — Mostly Clear
Wednesday
90°F — Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Wednesday Night
71°F — Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy
Thursday
91°F — Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Thursday Night
71°F — Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
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Sunrise / Sunset

Sunrise
Sunrise: 7:11 AM
Sunset
Sunset: 7:42 PM
Daylight: 12h 30m

UV Index

0
Low
0 Low 3 6 8 11+ Extreme
Protection Tip: No protection needed. You can safely stay outside.
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Moon Phase

Young Moon

Young Moon

Illumination: 11%

Pollen Count

Pollen
Overall: None

Tree: None

Grass: None

Ragweed/Weed: None

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Air Quality

32
GoodAQI 0–50: Air quality is considered satisfactory. Air pollution poses little or no risk for most people.

Pollutant: O3Ground-level ozone forms when sunlight reacts with pollutants. It can irritate breathing, especially on hot sunny days.

Reporting Area: Columbus

Detected Location: Columbus, OH, United States

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Severe Alerts

No active severe alerts
Nothing active from NWS for this location right now.
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Source: National Weather Service

Atlantic Outlook Maps

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Current Atlantic Storms

Updated: September 16, 2026 5:51 AM UTC

No tropical cyclones as of Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:06:25 GMT

Updated: September 14, 2026 5:51 PM UTC

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL

Issued by the NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD

200 PM EDT Mon Sep 14 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Central Subtropical Atlantic:

A trough of low pressure located about 1000 miles east-southeast

of Bermuda continues to produce disorganized showers and

thunderstorms. Environmental conditions over the system are

forecast to become more conducive for development by the middle of

this week. A tropical depression could form late this week as the

system moves slowly off to the west-northwest over the subtropical

Atlantic.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.

* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.

Forecaster: Chenard/Blake

Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook

Updated: September 14, 2026 5:51 PM UTC

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL

Issued by the NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD

200 PM EDT Mon Sep 14 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Central Subtropical Atlantic:

A trough of low pressure located about 1000 miles east-southeast

of Bermuda continues to produce disorganized showers and

thunderstorms. Environmental conditions over the system are

forecast to become more conducive for development by the middle of

this week. A tropical depression could form late this week as the

system moves slowly off to the west-northwest over the subtropical

Atlantic.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.

* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.

Forecaster: Chenard/Blake

Tracking Cone Explained

The hurricane tracking cone shows the probable path of the storm center. It does not show the full size of the storm, how far impacts may reach, or exactly where damage may occur.

Storm Categories

Category 174–95 mph
Category 296–110 mph
Category 3111–129 mph
Category 4130–156 mph
Category 5157+ mph
Source: National Hurricane Center / NOAA. Updates are pulled from official NHC RSS feeds and cached briefly by OTW News.