Was the forecast right for Atlanta on Wed Aug 26?

Atlanta, Georgia · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ATL observations

5 days out, 7 models put Atlanta's Wed Aug 26 high anywhere from 30° to 31°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 33° against the ATL observations, with 0.5 mm of precipitation — drizzle.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIFS ran 2° cool.

5 days out the models said 30–31; it hit 33. AIGFS led (off 0.1°C); AIFS ran 2°C cool. — The shareable card for this receipt — what this page looks like pasted into a thread.

What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Aug 26 as each model's runs approached it — the last archived run per day. NBM and The Spread's own blend are consensus products and stay out of these ranges and rankings; the Atlanta scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead	AIFS	AIGFS	ECMWF	GEM	GFS	ICON	UKMO	Range
5d · 2026-08-21	31°	31°	31°	30°	31°	31°	31°	30–31°
4d · 2026-08-22	33°	33°	35°	28°	34°	33°	31°	28–35°
3d · 2026-08-23	32°	33°	34°	32°	35°	31°	32°	31–35°
2d · 2026-08-24	31°	31°	34°	32°	35°	30°	30°	30–35°
1d · 2026-08-25	30°	33°	32°	31°	34°	31°	31°	30–34°
actual								33°

Read it honestly

This is one date, not a league table. A model can win a day it deserved to lose; rankings only mean something over a window. For that, see which model has been most accurate in Atlanta — or every city The Spread scores.

Forecasts are what each model's archived runs said at the time, captured at The Spread's sweep times — never reconstructed after the fact. Truth is the ATL observations. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.