Was the forecast right for Detroit on Sun Oct 11?
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 Sun Oct 11 high anywhere from 54° to 58°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 65°. The day verified at 63° against the DTW observations, with 0.11 in of precipitation — showers.
AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.7°. ECMWF ran 5° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Oct 11 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 · 2026-09-26 | — | 74° | — | — | 67° | — | — | 67–74° |
| 14d · 2026-09-27 | 54° | 55° | 55° | — | 58° | — | — | 54–58° |
| 13d · 2026-09-28 | 67° | 64° | 64° | — | 62° | — | — | 62–67° |
| 12d · 2026-09-29 | 58° | 84° | 75° | — | 70° | — | — | 58–84° |
| 11d · 2026-09-30 | 71° | 84° | 77° | — | 76° | — | — | 71–84° |
| 10d · 2026-10-01 | 81° | 81° | 76° | — | 77° | — | — | 76–81° |
| 9d · 2026-10-02 | 81° | 82° | 72° | 76° | 84° | — | — | 72–84° |
| 8d · 2026-10-03 | 77° | 72° | 74° | 68° | 70° | — | — | 68–77° |
| 7d · 2026-10-04 | 79° | 74° | 75° | 72° | 77° | — | — | 72–79° |
| 6d · 2026-10-05 | 71° | 71° | 71° | 80° | 61° | 75° | 72° | 61–80° |
| 5d · 2026-10-06 | 65° | 64° | 65° | 72° | 67° | 66° | 70° | 64–72° |
| 4d · 2026-10-07 | 64° | 64° | 64° | 66° | 64° | 64° | 65° | 64–66° |
| 3d · 2026-10-08 | 64° | 63° | 64° | 64° | 64° | 64° | 64° | 63–64° |
| 2d · 2026-10-09 | 66° | 63° | 64° | 67° | 65° | 70° | 65° | 63–70° |
| 1d · 2026-10-10 | 66° | 64° | 68° | 66° | 65° | 65° | 64° | 64–68° |
| actual | 63° |
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.