Columbia, PA Weather Forecast
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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, PA at a glance
Columbia is home to about 10,380 people in Lancaster County, across 2.4 square miles. It ranks 233rd by population of 970 places in Pennsylvania with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is West Hempfield, 2 miles away.
- County
- Lancaster County
- Population
- 10,380 2023 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,300
- Forecast point
- 40.0349°N, 76.4959°W
How well can the network see Columbia?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLWX (Sterling, VA), to the SW. 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 KLNS (Lancaster Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Columbia
- West Hempfield, PA2 mi
- Mountville, PA3 mi
- Marietta, PA3 mi
- East Donegal, PA5 mi
- Mount Joy, PA5 mi
- Hellam, PA5 mi
- Lower Windsor, PA5 mi
- Manor, PA5 mi
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