Was the forecast right for Buffalo on Sun Aug 30?
Buffalo, New York · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the BUF observations
9 days out, 5 models put Buffalo's Sun Aug 30 high anywhere from 22° to 31°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 22°. The day verified at 21° against the BUF observations, with 3.6 mm of precipitation — drizzle.
AIFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. GEM ran 4° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Aug 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9d · 2026-08-21 | 24° | 26° | 22° | 23° | 31° | — | — | 22–31° |
| 8d · 2026-08-22 | 25° | 23° | 23° | 25° | 24° | — | — | 23–25° |
| 7d · 2026-08-23 | 24° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 19° | — | — | 19–26° |
| 6d · 2026-08-24 | 26° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 22° | 22–27° |
| 5d · 2026-08-25 | 26° | 26° | 27° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 24–27° |
| 4d · 2026-08-26 | 27° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 22° | 24° | 26° | 22–27° |
| 3d · 2026-08-27 | 26° | 27° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 24° | 27° | 24–27° |
| 2d · 2026-08-28 | 22° | 21° | 25° | 27° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 20–27° |
| 1d · 2026-08-29 | 21° | 21° | 25° | 25° | 21° | 22° | 24° | 21–25° |
| actual | 21° |
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 BUF 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.