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Was the forecast right for Houston on Mon Aug 3?

Houston, Texas · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis

8 days out, 5 models put Houston's Mon Aug 3 high anywhere from 30° to 35°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 37°. The day verified at 37° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 1.0 mm of precipitation — drizzle.

ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIFS ran 2° cool.

8 days out the models said 30–35; it hit 37. ECMWF led (off 0.1°C); AIFS ran 2°C cool.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Aug 3 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 Houston scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
8d · 2026-07-26 33° 31° 35° 30° 35° — — 30–35°
7d · 2026-07-27 31° 33° 36° 37° 37° — — 31–37°
6d · 2026-07-28 34° 36° 37° 36° 38° 36° 35° 34–38°
5d · 2026-07-29 34° 35° 37° 34° 39° 35° 36° 34–39°
4d · 2026-07-30 35° 36° 38° 37° 41° 36° 39° 35–41°
3d · 2026-07-31 35° 36° 39° 37° 41° 36° 38° 35–41°
2d · 2026-08-01 35° 36° 38° 37° 40° 36° 38° 35–40°
1d · 2026-08-02 35° 36° 37° 37° 36° 37° 37° 35–37°
actual 37°

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 Houston — 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 ECMWF IFS analysis (temperature_2m_max). 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.