Columbia, MO Weather Forecast
Boone County, Missouri
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Columbia, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Columbia, MO at a glance
Columbia is home to about 129,330 people in Boone County, across 67 square miles. It ranks 4th by population of 211 places in Missouri with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Ashland, 10 miles away.
- County
- Boone County
- Population
- 129,330 2023 est.
- Land area
- 67 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,921
- Forecast point
- 38.9473°N, 92.3264°W
How well can the network see Columbia?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLSX (St. Louis, MO), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 8,200 ft above Columbia. At that range the beam overshoots the base of a storm. If a warning for Columbia looks unsupported on radar, trust the warning.
The closest weather station is KCOU (Columbia Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Columbia
- Ashland, MO10 mi
- Centralia, MO21 mi
- Fulton, MO21 mi
- Boonville, MO23 mi
- Holts Summit, MO24 mi
- Fayette, MO24 mi
- California, MO25 mi
- Jefferson City, MO27 mi
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