Was the forecast right for Denver on Tue Sep 8?
Denver, Colorado · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DEN observations
13 days out, 4 models put Denver's Tue Sep 8 high anywhere from 21° to 32°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 28°. The day verified at 30° against the DEN observations — drizzle.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.7°. AIGFS ran 3° cold.
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 Denver scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14d · 2026-08-25 | 22° | 28° | — | — | 29° | — | — | 22–29° |
| 13d · 2026-08-26 | 21° | 28° | 32° | — | 26° | — | — | 21–32° |
| 12d · 2026-08-27 | 28° | 31° | 26° | — | 26° | — | — | 26–31° |
| 11d · 2026-08-28 | 30° | 25° | 31° | — | 28° | — | — | 25–31° |
| 10d · 2026-08-29 | 33° | 33° | 30° | — | 29° | — | — | 29–33° |
| 9d · 2026-08-30 | 29° | 33° | 34° | — | 35° | — | — | 29–35° |
| 8d · 2026-08-31 | 26° | 29° | 24° | 30° | 34° | — | — | 24–34° |
| 7d · 2026-09-01 | 30° | 28° | 31° | 32° | 32° | — | — | 28–32° |
| 6d · 2026-09-02 | 32° | 28° | 26° | 30° | 27° | 29° | — | 26–32° |
| 5d · 2026-09-03 | 33° | 29° | 31° | 30° | 27° | 27° | 22° | 22–33° |
| 4d · 2026-09-04 | 31° | 28° | 31° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 25° | 25–31° |
| 3d · 2026-09-05 | 31° | 28° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 28–31° |
| 2d · 2026-09-06 | 30° | 29° | 31° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29–31° |
| 1d · 2026-09-07 | 29° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 31° | 28–31° |
| 0d · 2026-09-08 | 29° | 27° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 27–29° |
| actual | 30° |
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 Denver — 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 DEN observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.