Was the forecast right for Dallas on Thu Jul 30?
Dallas, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
4 days out, 7 models put Dallas's Thu Jul 30 high anywhere from 97° to 106°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 101°. The day verified at 102° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — drizzle.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIFS ran 3° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Jul 30 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 Dallas scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4d · 2026-07-26 | 98° | 97° | 105° | 99° | 106° | 103° | 102° | 97–106° |
| 3d · 2026-07-27 | 98° | 101° | 104° | 101° | 107° | 102° | 102° | 98–107° |
| 2d · 2026-07-28 | 98° | 102° | 105° | 100° | 106° | 102° | 101° | 98–106° |
| 1d · 2026-07-29 | 99° | 101° | 103° | 99° | 101° | 101° | 101° | 99–103° |
| actual | 102° |
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 Dallas — 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). 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.