Was the forecast right for Buffalo on Tue Aug 18?
Buffalo, New York · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
14 days out, 4 models put Buffalo's Tue Aug 18 high anywhere from 75° to 82°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 78°. The day verified at 77° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — cloudy.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.2°. UKMO ran 2° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Tue Aug 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-08-03 | — | 77° | — | — | 80° | — | — | 77–80° |
| 14d · 2026-08-04 | 78° | 76° | 75° | — | 82° | — | — | 75–82° |
| 13d · 2026-08-05 | 76° | 76° | 76° | — | 73° | — | — | 73–76° |
| 12d · 2026-08-06 | 78° | 76° | 78° | — | 77° | — | — | 76–78° |
| 11d · 2026-08-07 | 80° | 76° | 73° | — | 78° | — | — | 73–80° |
| 10d · 2026-08-08 | 75° | 77° | 76° | — | 83° | — | — | 75–83° |
| 9d · 2026-08-09 | 76° | 74° | 78° | 76° | 80° | — | — | 74–80° |
| 8d · 2026-08-10 | 76° | 74° | 76° | 76° | 82° | — | — | 74–82° |
| 7d · 2026-08-11 | 77° | 76° | 75° | 76° | 79° | — | — | 75–79° |
| 6d · 2026-08-12 | 76° | 76° | 78° | 76° | 81° | 77° | 80° | 76–81° |
| 5d · 2026-08-13 | 76° | 76° | 78° | 75° | 84° | 79° | 79° | 75–84° |
| 4d · 2026-08-14 | 77° | 76° | 79° | 75° | 79° | 79° | 78° | 75–79° |
| 3d · 2026-08-15 | 78° | 76° | 77° | 76° | 79° | 78° | 78° | 76–79° |
| 2d · 2026-08-16 | 78° | 76° | 80° | 76° | 81° | 77° | 78° | 76–81° |
| 1d · 2026-08-17 | 78° | 75° | 79° | 79° | 78° | 78° | 80° | 75–80° |
| actual | 77° |
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.