The Spread

Was the forecast right for Dallas on Mon Sep 7?

Dallas, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DAL observations

13 days out, 4 models put Dallas's Mon Sep 7 high anywhere from 77° to 103°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 100°. The day verified at 101° against the DAL observations — partly cloudy.

ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.1°.

13 days out the models said 77–103; it hit 101. ECMWF led (off 0.1°F).
The shareable card for this receipt — what this page looks like pasted into a thread.

What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Sep 7 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-23 76° 103° 76–103°
14d · 2026-08-24 104° 83° 104° 83–104°
13d · 2026-08-25 88° 77° 95° 103° 77–103°
12d · 2026-08-26 90° 83° 89° 106° 83–106°
11d · 2026-08-27 98° 99° 102° 103° 98–103°
10d · 2026-08-28 101° 101° 100° 98° 98–101°
9d · 2026-08-29 98° 102° 101° 102° 98–102°
8d · 2026-08-30 99° 92° 102° 97° 104° 92–104°
7d · 2026-08-31 100° 95° 100° 91° 104° 91–104°
6d · 2026-09-01 99° 98° 100° 97° 102° 99° 97–102°
5d · 2026-09-02 99° 100° 96° 99° 104° 98° 100° 96–104°
4d · 2026-09-03 98° 97° 101° 101° 104° 100° 100° 97–104°
3d · 2026-09-04 99° 96° 102° 97° 101° 98° 101° 96–102°
2d · 2026-09-05 100° 96° 102° 100° 104° 100° 100° 96–104°
1d · 2026-09-06 100° 98° 102° 100° 104° 100° 100° 98–104°
0d · 2026-09-07 100° 99° 101° 100° 103° 100° 102° 99–103°
actual 101°

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 DAL observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.