Was the forecast right for Buffalo on Fri Jul 31?
Buffalo, New York · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
5 days out, 7 models put Buffalo's Fri Jul 31 high anywhere from 24° to 28°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 28°. The day verified at 28° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — cloudy.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.1°. UKMO ran 1° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Jul 31 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 Buffalo scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5d · 2026-07-26 | 27° | 28° | 27° | 24° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 24–28° |
| 4d · 2026-07-27 | 27° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 29° | 27° | 28° | 25–29° |
| 3d · 2026-07-28 | 27° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 29° | 27° | 28° | 25–29° |
| 2d · 2026-07-29 | 28° | 28° | 26° | 26° | 28° | 27° | 28° | 26–28° |
| 1d · 2026-07-30 | 28° | 27° | 27° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 29° | 27–29° |
| actual | 28° |
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 Buffalo — 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.