Was the forecast right for Charlotte on Sat Aug 1?
Charlotte, North Carolina · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
7 days out, 5 models put Charlotte's Sat Aug 1 high anywhere from 26° to 31°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 30° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 3.8 mm of precipitation — rain.
AIFS landed closest, off by 0.7°. GEM ran 3° hot.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Aug 1 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 Charlotte scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7d · 2026-07-25 | 29° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 26° | — | — | 26–31° |
| 6d · 2026-07-26 | 29° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 26° | — | — | 26–31° |
| 5d · 2026-07-27 | 30° | 29° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 31° | 34° | 29–34° |
| 4d · 2026-07-28 | 30° | 30° | 32° | 28° | 34° | 29° | 32° | 28–34° |
| 3d · 2026-07-29 | 30° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 36° | 31° | 33° | 30–36° |
| 2d · 2026-07-30 | 30° | 31° | 34° | 33° | 35° | 32° | 34° | 30–35° |
| 1d · 2026-07-31 | 30° | 31° | 34° | 35° | 34° | 31° | 34° | 30–35° |
| 0d · 2026-08-01 | 30° | 31° | 32° | 33° | 31° | 30° | 33° | 30–33° |
| actual | 30° |
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 Charlotte — 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). Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.