Was the forecast right for Dallas on Mon Oct 19?
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 Mon Oct 19 high anywhere from 61° to 80°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 75°. The day verified at 77° against the DAL observations — cloudy.
GFS landed closest, off by 1.8°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Mon Oct 19 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 · 2026-10-04 | — | 68° | — | — | 80° | — | — | 68–80° |
| 14d · 2026-10-05 | 75° | 80° | 61° | — | 72° | — | — | 61–80° |
| 13d · 2026-10-06 | 72° | 81° | 83° | — | 77° | — | — | 72–83° |
| 12d · 2026-10-07 | 74° | 71° | 78° | — | 72° | — | — | 71–78° |
| 11d · 2026-10-08 | 62° | 80° | 65° | — | 60° | — | — | 60–80° |
| 10d · 2026-10-09 | 70° | 73° | 89° | — | 70° | — | — | 70–89° |
| 9d · 2026-10-10 | 75° | 64° | 84° | 70° | 65° | — | — | 64–84° |
| 8d · 2026-10-11 | 80° | 74° | 74° | 83° | 76° | — | — | 74–83° |
| 7d · 2026-10-12 | — | 76° | 81° | 79° | 76° | — | — | 76–81° |
| 6d · 2026-10-13 | 74° | 76° | 78° | 73° | 78° | 80° | 71° | 71–80° |
| 5d · 2026-10-14 | 74° | 73° | 76° | 71° | 78° | 74° | 71° | 71–78° |
| 4d · 2026-10-15 | 74° | 72° | 75° | 71° | 76° | 73° | 71° | 71–76° |
| 3d · 2026-10-16 | 76° | 72° | 76° | 72° | 76° | 74° | 73° | 72–76° |
| 2d · 2026-10-17 | 75° | 72° | 74° | 73° | 76° | 74° | 73° | 72–76° |
| 1d · 2026-10-18 | 75° | 73° | 75° | 74° | 75° | 75° | 74° | 73–75° |
| actual | 77° |
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.