Was the forecast right for Buffalo on Fri Oct 9?
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 Fri Oct 9 high anywhere from 57° to 67°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 65°. The day verified at 65° against the BUF observations — cloudy.
AIFS landed closest, off by 0.0°.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 9 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 · 2026-09-24 | — | 65° | — | — | 57° | — | — | 57–65° |
| 14d · 2026-09-25 | 57° | 58° | 67° | — | 63° | — | — | 57–67° |
| 13d · 2026-09-26 | 58° | 68° | 65° | — | 48° | — | — | 48–68° |
| 12d · 2026-09-27 | 50° | 62° | 61° | — | 54° | — | — | 50–62° |
| 11d · 2026-09-28 | 57° | 63° | 52° | — | 57° | — | — | 52–63° |
| 10d · 2026-09-29 | 68° | 51° | 62° | — | 55° | — | — | 51–68° |
| 9d · 2026-09-30 | 68° | 64° | 62° | 68° | 68° | — | — | 62–68° |
| 8d · 2026-10-01 | 66° | 71° | 66° | 68° | 66° | — | — | 66–71° |
| 7d · 2026-10-02 | 60° | 65° | 63° | 62° | 70° | — | — | 60–70° |
| 6d · 2026-10-03 | 66° | 63° | 67° | 61° | 60° | 64° | 61° | 60–67° |
| 5d · 2026-10-04 | 64° | 63° | 61° | 63° | 63° | 62° | 62° | 61–64° |
| 4d · 2026-10-05 | 64° | 62° | 62° | 60° | 63° | 61° | 59° | 59–64° |
| 3d · 2026-10-06 | 65° | 61° | 61° | 62° | 61° | 63° | 61° | 61–65° |
| 2d · 2026-10-07 | 64° | 62° | 62° | 64° | 63° | 64° | 62° | 62–64° |
| 1d · 2026-10-08 | 65° | 64° | 63° | 66° | 66° | 65° | 64° | 63–66° |
| actual | 65° |
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.