Was the forecast right for Boston on Tue Sep 22?
Boston, Massachusetts · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the BOS observations
14 days out, 4 models put Boston's Tue Sep 22 high anywhere from 18° to 20°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 16°. The day verified at 17° against the BOS observations — drizzle.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.3°. AIGFS ran 2° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 22 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 · 2026-09-07 | — | 16° | — | — | 23° | — | — | 16–23° |
| 14d · 2026-09-08 | 20° | 19° | 18° | — | 18° | — | — | 18–20° |
| 13d · 2026-09-09 | 27° | 14° | 16° | — | 19° | — | — | 14–27° |
| 12d · 2026-09-10 | 15° | 17° | 16° | — | 15° | — | — | 15–17° |
| 11d · 2026-09-11 | 17° | 18° | 18° | — | 15° | — | — | 15–18° |
| 10d · 2026-09-12 | 18° | 18° | 18° | — | 16° | — | — | 16–18° |
| 9d · 2026-09-13 | 18° | 19° | 28° | 19° | 14° | — | — | 14–28° |
| 8d · 2026-09-14 | 15° | 16° | 16° | 18° | 16° | — | — | 15–18° |
| 7d · 2026-09-15 | 16° | 17° | 16° | 15° | 16° | — | — | 15–17° |
| 6d · 2026-09-16 | 15° | 15° | 17° | 15° | 15° | 17° | 18° | 15–18° |
| 5d · 2026-09-17 | 16° | 13° | 17° | 14° | 17° | 17° | 16° | 13–17° |
| 4d · 2026-09-18 | 16° | 15° | 15° | 14° | 15° | 17° | 16° | 14–17° |
| 3d · 2026-09-19 | 16° | 15° | 16° | 15° | 15° | 17° | 16° | 15–17° |
| 2d · 2026-09-20 | 16° | 15° | 16° | 17° | 15° | 17° | 16° | 15–17° |
| 1d · 2026-09-21 | 16° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 15° | 17° | 16° | 15–18° |
| actual | 17° |
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. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.