Was the forecast right for Charlotte on Fri Aug 28?
Charlotte, North Carolina · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the CLT observations
7 days out, 5 models put Charlotte's Fri Aug 28 high anywhere from 81° to 94°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 87°. The day verified at 90° against the CLT observations, with 0.02 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.
GEM landed closest, off by 1.1°. GFS ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Aug 28 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 · 2026-08-21 | 85° | 88° | 86° | 81° | 94° | — | — | 81–94° |
| 6d · 2026-08-22 | 85° | 88° | 86° | 83° | 91° | 89° | 87° | 83–91° |
| 5d · 2026-08-23 | 84° | 88° | 87° | 84° | 90° | 89° | 91° | 84–91° |
| 4d · 2026-08-24 | 84° | 84° | 87° | 74° | 84° | 81° | 89° | 74–89° |
| 3d · 2026-08-25 | 84° | 86° | 86° | 84° | 90° | 81° | 85° | 81–90° |
| 2d · 2026-08-26 | 85° | 88° | 83° | 88° | 83° | 86° | 82° | 82–88° |
| 1d · 2026-08-27 | 86° | 87° | 88° | 89° | 85° | 86° | 87° | 85–89° |
| actual | 90° |
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.