Was the forecast right for Buffalo on Sun Oct 4?
Buffalo, New York · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the BUF observations
14 days out, 4 models put Buffalo's Sun Oct 4 high anywhere from 60° to 74°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 67°. The day verified at 69° against the BUF observations — drizzle.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.3°. ECMWF ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Oct 4 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 · 2026-09-19 | — | 61° | — | — | 68° | — | — | 61–68° |
| 14d · 2026-09-20 | 60° | 71° | 69° | — | 74° | — | — | 60–74° |
| 13d · 2026-09-21 | 59° | 60° | 72° | — | 73° | — | — | 59–73° |
| 12d · 2026-09-22 | 65° | 60° | 77° | — | 71° | — | — | 60–77° |
| 11d · 2026-09-23 | 68° | 58° | 71° | — | 72° | — | — | 58–72° |
| 10d · 2026-09-24 | 60° | 80° | 58° | — | 78° | — | — | 58–80° |
| 9d · 2026-09-25 | 62° | 60° | 69° | 69° | 86° | — | — | 60–86° |
| 8d · 2026-09-26 | 59° | 70° | 61° | 66° | 65° | — | — | 59–70° |
| 7d · 2026-09-27 | 65° | 63° | 69° | 64° | 67° | — | — | 63–69° |
| 6d · 2026-09-28 | 68° | 60° | 66° | 62° | 60° | 62° | 60° | 60–68° |
| 5d · 2026-09-29 | 67° | 69° | 68° | 64° | 66° | 64° | 69° | 64–69° |
| 4d · 2026-09-30 | 64° | 68° | 68° | 66° | 72° | 65° | 68° | 64–72° |
| 3d · 2026-10-01 | 66° | 68° | 65° | 66° | 69° | 66° | 68° | 65–69° |
| 2d · 2026-10-02 | 66° | 68° | 64° | 67° | 69° | 65° | 66° | 64–69° |
| 1d · 2026-10-03 | 66° | 68° | 64° | 69° | 70° | 67° | 66° | 64–70° |
| actual | 69° |
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.