Was the forecast right for Detroit on Tue Oct 13?
Detroit, Michigan · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DTW observations
14 days out, 4 models put Detroit's Tue Oct 13 high anywhere from 15° to 21°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 28°. The day verified at 31° against the DTW observations — drizzle.
GEM landed closest, off by 1.3°. UKMO ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Tue Oct 13 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 · 2026-09-28 | — | 16° | — | — | 16° | — | — | 16–16° |
| 14d · 2026-09-29 | 15° | 18° | 21° | — | 15° | — | — | 15–21° |
| 13d · 2026-09-30 | 9° | 17° | 16° | — | 15° | — | — | 9–17° |
| 12d · 2026-10-01 | 11° | 10° | 18° | — | 20° | — | — | 10–20° |
| 11d · 2026-10-02 | 14° | 11° | 19° | — | 21° | — | — | 11–21° |
| 10d · 2026-10-03 | 25° | 21° | 12° | — | 21° | — | — | 12–25° |
| 9d · 2026-10-04 | 25° | 12° | 26° | 19° | 18° | — | — | 12–26° |
| 8d · 2026-10-05 | 27° | 12° | 23° | 23° | 27° | — | — | 12–27° |
| 7d · 2026-10-06 | 23° | 25° | 24° | 25° | 20° | — | — | 20–25° |
| 6d · 2026-10-07 | 22° | 24° | 19° | 25° | 22° | 13° | 19° | 13–25° |
| 5d · 2026-10-08 | 27° | 27° | 20° | 28° | 29° | 26° | 19° | 19–29° |
| 4d · 2026-10-09 | 28° | 25° | 26° | 22° | 22° | 28° | 22° | 22–28° |
| 3d · 2026-10-10 | 29° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 27–29° |
| 2d · 2026-10-11 | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 27–29° |
| 1d · 2026-10-12 | — | 28° | 27° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 27° | 27–29° |
| actual | 31° |
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.