Was the forecast right for Buffalo on Tue Oct 20?
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 Tue Oct 20 high anywhere from 59° to 65°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 61°. The day verified at 64° against the BUF observations — partly cloudy.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.4°. UKMO ran 6° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Tue Oct 20 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 · 2026-10-05 | — | 65° | — | — | 62° | — | — | 62–65° |
| 14d · 2026-10-06 | 59° | 65° | 63° | — | 62° | — | — | 59–65° |
| 13d · 2026-10-07 | 64° | 60° | 57° | — | 58° | — | — | 57–64° |
| 12d · 2026-10-08 | 56° | 69° | 58° | — | 63° | — | — | 56–69° |
| 11d · 2026-10-09 | 63° | 64° | 63° | — | 59° | — | — | 59–64° |
| 10d · 2026-10-10 | 62° | 59° | 64° | — | 54° | — | — | 54–64° |
| 9d · 2026-10-11 | 59° | 64° | 66° | 63° | 63° | — | — | 59–66° |
| 8d · 2026-10-12 | — | 61° | 63° | 62° | 66° | — | — | 61–66° |
| 7d · 2026-10-13 | 67° | 60° | 62° | 62° | 64° | — | — | 60–67° |
| 6d · 2026-10-14 | 66° | 64° | 61° | 62° | 64° | 63° | 59° | 59–66° |
| 5d · 2026-10-15 | 67° | 63° | 63° | 61° | 64° | 64° | 64° | 61–67° |
| 4d · 2026-10-16 | 64° | 64° | 62° | 61° | 63° | 60° | 62° | 60–64° |
| 3d · 2026-10-17 | 63° | 63° | 60° | 60° | 62° | 59° | 60° | 59–63° |
| 2d · 2026-10-18 | 62° | 63° | 59° | 60° | 61° | 61° | 56° | 56–63° |
| 1d · 2026-10-19 | 63° | 61° | 59° | 64° | 61° | 61° | 58° | 58–64° |
| actual | 64° |
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.