Was the forecast right for Boston on Fri Aug 7?
Boston, Massachusetts · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
12 days out, 4 models put Boston's Fri Aug 7 high anywhere from 75° to 92°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 93°. The day verified at 96° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 0.04 in of precipitation — drizzle.
GFS landed closest, off by 1.3°. AIFS ran 8° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Aug 7 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 Boston scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12d · 2026-07-26 | 75° | 81° | 92° | — | 80° | — | — | 75–92° |
| 11d · 2026-07-27 | 85° | 85° | 85° | — | 91° | — | — | 85–91° |
| 10d · 2026-07-28 | 83° | 83° | 74° | — | 73° | — | — | 73–83° |
| 9d · 2026-07-29 | 86° | 90° | 88° | 81° | 84° | — | — | 81–90° |
| 8d · 2026-07-30 | 89° | 94° | 89° | 90° | 88° | — | — | 88–94° |
| 7d · 2026-07-31 | 89° | 94° | 88° | 86° | 94° | — | — | 86–94° |
| 6d · 2026-08-01 | 88° | 97° | 84° | 88° | 90° | 92° | 95° | 84–97° |
| 5d · 2026-08-02 | 86° | 95° | 90° | 88° | 91° | 93° | 95° | 86–95° |
| 4d · 2026-08-03 | 86° | 94° | 89° | 89° | 90° | 91° | 92° | 86–94° |
| 3d · 2026-08-04 | 86° | 95° | 90° | 93° | 90° | 89° | 89° | 86–95° |
| 2d · 2026-08-05 | 88° | 95° | 91° | 93° | 91° | 92° | 90° | 88–95° |
| 1d · 2026-08-06 | 87° | 93° | 91° | 93° | 94° | 93° | 93° | 87–94° |
| actual | 96° |
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 Boston — 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 ECMWF IFS analysis (temperature_2m_max). 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.