Was the forecast right for Detroit on Wed Oct 7?
Detroit, Michigan · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DTW observations
14 days out, 4 models put Detroit's Wed Oct 7 high anywhere from 65° to 73°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 76°. The day verified at 78° against the DTW observations — cloudy.
GEM landed closest, off by 1.0°. UKMO ran 6° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Oct 7 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 Detroit scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-22 | — | 73° | — | — | 70° | — | — | 70–73° |
| 14d · 2026-09-23 | 73° | 69° | 67° | — | 65° | — | — | 65–73° |
| 13d · 2026-09-24 | 68° | 55° | 66° | — | 57° | — | — | 55–68° |
| 12d · 2026-09-25 | 70° | 64° | 69° | — | 64° | — | — | 64–70° |
| 11d · 2026-09-26 | 68° | 63° | 66° | — | 71° | — | — | 63–71° |
| 10d · 2026-09-27 | 69° | 67° | 68° | — | 65° | — | — | 65–69° |
| 9d · 2026-09-28 | 63° | 66° | 68° | 69° | 68° | — | — | 63–69° |
| 8d · 2026-09-29 | 68° | 68° | 59° | 69° | 68° | — | — | 59–69° |
| 7d · 2026-09-30 | 70° | 71° | 67° | 68° | 64° | — | — | 64–71° |
| 6d · 2026-10-01 | 72° | 69° | 70° | 70° | 69° | 72° | 69° | 69–72° |
| 5d · 2026-10-02 | 74° | 74° | 72° | 67° | 74° | 69° | 71° | 67–74° |
| 4d · 2026-10-03 | 74° | 78° | 68° | 72° | 77° | 72° | 68° | 68–78° |
| 3d · 2026-10-04 | 75° | 77° | 72° | 73° | 77° | 76° | 70° | 70–77° |
| 2d · 2026-10-05 | 75° | 76° | 73° | 74° | 76° | 77° | 73° | 73–77° |
| 1d · 2026-10-06 | 76° | 76° | 73° | 77° | 77° | 75° | 72° | 72–77° |
| actual | 78° |
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 Detroit — 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 DTW 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.