Was the forecast right for Boston on Mon Oct 19?
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 Mon Oct 19 high anywhere from 51° to 77°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 56°. The day verified at 56° against the BOS observations — clear.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.5°. GEM ran 2° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Mon Oct 19 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 · 2026-10-04 | — | 56° | — | — | 58° | — | — | 56–58° |
| 14d · 2026-10-05 | 62° | 54° | 77° | — | 51° | — | — | 51–77° |
| 13d · 2026-10-06 | 54° | 59° | 59° | — | 64° | — | — | 54–64° |
| 12d · 2026-10-07 | 68° | 58° | 53° | — | 65° | — | — | 53–68° |
| 11d · 2026-10-08 | 47° | 57° | 55° | — | 60° | — | — | 47–60° |
| 10d · 2026-10-09 | 59° | 55° | 64° | — | 55° | — | — | 55–64° |
| 9d · 2026-10-10 | 66° | 51° | 58° | 47° | 49° | — | — | 47–66° |
| 8d · 2026-10-11 | 64° | 59° | 64° | 59° | 63° | — | — | 59–64° |
| 7d · 2026-10-12 | — | 51° | 64° | 59° | 61° | — | — | 51–64° |
| 6d · 2026-10-13 | 62° | 68° | 64° | 63° | 64° | 67° | 65° | 62–68° |
| 5d · 2026-10-14 | 60° | 68° | 54° | 62° | 64° | 62° | 55° | 54–68° |
| 4d · 2026-10-15 | 57° | 64° | 55° | 56° | 55° | 58° | 62° | 55–64° |
| 3d · 2026-10-16 | 58° | 57° | 56° | 56° | 55° | 58° | 62° | 55–62° |
| 2d · 2026-10-17 | 58° | 58° | 54° | 58° | 54° | 57° | 55° | 54–58° |
| 1d · 2026-10-18 | 58° | 57° | 54° | 58° | 54° | 56° | 56° | 54–58° |
| actual | 56° |
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.