Was the forecast right for Charlotte on Thu Aug 27?
Charlotte, North Carolina · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the CLT observations
6 days out, 7 models put Charlotte's Thu Aug 27 high anywhere from 78° to 87°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 88°. The day verified at 88° against the CLT observations — showers.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.4°. GFS ran 5° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Aug 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6d · 2026-08-21 | 79° | 78° | 84° | 82° | 80° | 79° | 87° | 78–87° |
| 5d · 2026-08-22 | 82° | 82° | 88° | 80° | 95° | 89° | 89° | 80–95° |
| 4d · 2026-08-23 | 77° | 80° | 88° | 86° | 73° | 88° | 90° | 73–90° |
| 3d · 2026-08-24 | 84° | 82° | 88° | 88° | 84° | 88° | 87° | 82–88° |
| 2d · 2026-08-25 | 84° | 87° | 88° | 90° | 91° | 88° | 88° | 84–91° |
| 1d · 2026-08-26 | 85° | 89° | 86° | 90° | 93° | 86° | 88° | 85–93° |
| actual | 88° |
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 CLT 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.