Was the forecast right for Dallas on Sat Oct 17?
Dallas, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DAL observations
14 days out, 4 models put Dallas's Sat Oct 17 high anywhere from 68° to 78°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 65°. The day verified at 66° against the DAL observations — cloudy.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIGFS ran 3° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Oct 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-10-02 | — | 72° | — | — | 74° | — | — | 72–74° |
| 14d · 2026-10-03 | 75° | 69° | 68° | — | 78° | — | — | 68–78° |
| 13d · 2026-10-04 | 72° | 74° | 67° | — | 75° | — | — | 67–75° |
| 12d · 2026-10-05 | 62° | 73° | 75° | — | 71° | — | — | 62–75° |
| 11d · 2026-10-06 | 64° | 70° | 86° | — | 62° | — | — | 62–86° |
| 10d · 2026-10-07 | 87° | 56° | 65° | — | 63° | — | — | 56–87° |
| 9d · 2026-10-08 | 64° | 88° | 64° | 63° | 71° | — | — | 63–88° |
| 8d · 2026-10-09 | 63° | 68° | 80° | 65° | 64° | — | — | 63–80° |
| 7d · 2026-10-10 | 63° | 65° | 75° | 64° | 57° | — | — | 57–75° |
| 6d · 2026-10-11 | 68° | 64° | 72° | 70° | 66° | 70° | 74° | 64–74° |
| 5d · 2026-10-12 | — | 64° | 69° | 66° | 69° | 71° | 68° | 64–71° |
| 4d · 2026-10-13 | 63° | 65° | 66° | 66° | 68° | 66° | 64° | 63–68° |
| 3d · 2026-10-14 | 64° | 64° | 66° | 63° | 66° | 64° | 63° | 63–66° |
| 2d · 2026-10-15 | 64° | 64° | 64° | 63° | 66° | 64° | 64° | 63–66° |
| 1d · 2026-10-16 | 66° | 63° | 66° | 65° | 67° | 64° | 65° | 63–67° |
| actual | 66° |
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. 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.