Was the forecast right for Boston on Fri Sep 4?
Boston, Massachusetts · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the BOS observations
14 days out, 4 models put Boston's Fri Sep 4 high anywhere from 67° to 82°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 81°. The day verified at 85° against the BOS observations — drizzle.
ICON landed closest, off by 1.5°. AIFS ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-08-20 | — | 74° | — | — | 86° | — | — | 74–86° |
| 14d · 2026-08-21 | 74° | 67° | 82° | — | 73° | — | — | 67–82° |
| 13d · 2026-08-22 | 74° | 72° | 75° | — | 65° | — | — | 65–75° |
| 12d · 2026-08-23 | 77° | 69° | 80° | — | 77° | — | — | 69–80° |
| 11d · 2026-08-24 | 75° | 65° | 84° | — | 68° | — | — | 65–84° |
| 10d · 2026-08-25 | 72° | 75° | 75° | — | 69° | — | — | 69–75° |
| 9d · 2026-08-26 | 80° | 67° | 81° | 66° | 68° | — | — | 66–81° |
| 8d · 2026-08-27 | 78° | 78° | 76° | 76° | 75° | — | — | 75–78° |
| 7d · 2026-08-28 | 80° | 78° | 77° | 76° | 77° | — | — | 76–80° |
| 6d · 2026-08-29 | 72° | 79° | 72° | 71° | 72° | 82° | 81° | 71–82° |
| 5d · 2026-08-30 | 79° | 77° | 78° | 76° | 78° | 83° | 76° | 76–83° |
| 4d · 2026-08-31 | 80° | 79° | 80° | 77° | 77° | 82° | 82° | 77–82° |
| 3d · 2026-09-01 | 80° | 81° | 81° | 81° | 83° | 82° | 83° | 80–83° |
| 2d · 2026-09-02 | 80° | 82° | 82° | 82° | 72° | 83° | 84° | 72–84° |
| 1d · 2026-09-03 | 80° | 82° | 81° | 80° | 80° | 84° | 83° | 80–84° |
| actual | 85° |
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 BOS 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.