Was the forecast right for Atlanta on Wed Sep 9?
Atlanta, Georgia · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ATL observations
14 days out, 4 models put Atlanta's Wed Sep 9 high anywhere from 86° to 94°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 88°. The day verified at 89° against the ATL observations — cloudy.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.1°.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-08-25 | — | 86° | — | — | 100° | — | — | 86–100° |
| 14d · 2026-08-26 | 86° | 90° | 90° | — | 94° | — | — | 86–94° |
| 13d · 2026-08-27 | 83° | 91° | 100° | — | 104° | — | — | 83–104° |
| 12d · 2026-08-28 | 83° | 85° | 93° | — | 91° | — | — | 83–93° |
| 11d · 2026-08-29 | 89° | 83° | 93° | — | 89° | — | — | 83–93° |
| 10d · 2026-08-30 | 84° | 88° | 92° | — | 88° | — | — | 84–92° |
| 9d · 2026-08-31 | 84° | 76° | 99° | 84° | 90° | — | — | 76–99° |
| 8d · 2026-09-01 | 88° | 89° | 88° | 89° | 93° | — | — | 88–93° |
| 7d · 2026-09-02 | 88° | 88° | 91° | 88° | 94° | — | — | 88–94° |
| 6d · 2026-09-03 | 87° | 87° | 90° | 80° | 91° | 87° | 88° | 80–91° |
| 5d · 2026-09-04 | 84° | 87° | 87° | 85° | 93° | 88° | 90° | 84–93° |
| 4d · 2026-09-05 | 84° | 88° | 89° | 78° | 91° | 88° | 86° | 78–91° |
| 3d · 2026-09-06 | 85° | 87° | 85° | 80° | 92° | 84° | 88° | 80–92° |
| 2d · 2026-09-07 | 87° | 88° | 91° | 88° | 92° | 88° | 88° | 87–92° |
| 1d · 2026-09-08 | 88° | 88° | 91° | 89° | 91° | 88° | 88° | 88–91° |
| actual | 89° |
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.