Was the forecast right for Denver on Mon Oct 26?
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 Mon Oct 26 high anywhere from 12° to 20°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 13°. The day verified at 12° against the DEN observations, with 6.9 mm of precipitation — drizzle.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.7°. GFS ran 3° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Mon Oct 26 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, labeled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-10-11 | — | 0° | — | — | 16° | — | — | 0–16° |
| 14d · 2026-10-12 | — | 16° | 8° | — | 17° | — | — | 8–17° |
| 13d · 2026-10-13 | 18° | 12° | 20° | — | 17° | — | — | 12–20° |
| 12d · 2026-10-14 | 15° | 13° | 7° | — | 7° | — | — | 7–15° |
| 11d · 2026-10-15 | 15° | 14° | -2° | — | 12° | — | — | -2–15° |
| 10d · 2026-10-16 | 15° | 15° | 18° | — | 16° | — | — | 15–18° |
| 9d · 2026-10-17 | 16° | 18° | 22° | 14° | 16° | — | — | 14–22° |
| 8d · 2026-10-18 | 14° | 19° | 23° | 22° | 12° | — | — | 12–23° |
| 7d · 2026-10-19 | 10° | 18° | 15° | 20° | 18° | — | — | 10–20° |
| 6d · 2026-10-20 | 9° | 16° | 5° | 17° | 6° | 16° | 15° | 5–17° |
| 5d · 2026-10-21 | 11° | 13° | 12° | 16° | 10° | 6° | 9° | 6–16° |
| 4d · 2026-10-22 | 12° | 12° | 15° | 16° | 14° | 16° | 13° | 12–16° |
| 3d · 2026-10-23 | 11° | 12° | 14° | 13° | 14° | 16° | 11° | 11–16° |
| 2d · 2026-10-24 | 13° | 12° | 15° | 14° | 14° | 15° | 15° | 12–15° |
| 1d · 2026-10-25 | 10° | 11° | 14° | 13° | 15° | 14° | 13° | 10–15° |
| actual | 12° |
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. The actual values are the ones in hand when this day was verified, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; verified days exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.