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Was the forecast right for Dallas on Tue Sep 8?

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 Tue Sep 8 high anywhere from 85° to 107°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 100°. The day verified at 101° against the DAL observations — drizzle.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.3°.

13 days out the models said 85–107; it hit 101. GEM led (off 0.3°F).
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 8 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 · 2026-08-24 85° 99° 85–99°
14d · 2026-08-25 82° 83° 102° 82–102°
13d · 2026-08-26 97° 85° 90° 107° 85–107°
12d · 2026-08-27 91° 100° 98° 104° 91–104°
11d · 2026-08-28 102° 99° 98° 105° 98–105°
10d · 2026-08-29 99° 101° 100° 100° 99–101°
9d · 2026-08-30 99° 93° 99° 101° 93–101°
8d · 2026-08-31 100° 93° 95° 93° 107° 93–107°
7d · 2026-09-01 100° 98° 99° 98° 103° 98–103°
6d · 2026-09-02 98° 98° 93° 98° 103° 97° 93–103°
5d · 2026-09-03 99° 97° 100° 102° 104° 94° 90° 90–104°
4d · 2026-09-04 100° 96° 101° 98° 102° 97° 101° 96–102°
3d · 2026-09-05 100° 97° 102° 99° 104° 102° 100° 97–104°
2d · 2026-09-06 100° 98° 102° 98° 104° 102° 100° 98–104°
1d · 2026-09-07 99° 98° 102° 100° 103° 101° 101° 98–103°
0d · 2026-09-08 100° 100° 100° 101° 102° 101° 100° 100–102°
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.