Was the forecast right for Houston on Fri Sep 4?
Houston, Texas · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the HOU observations
13 days out, 4 models put Houston's Fri Sep 4 high anywhere from 32° to 39°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 33°. The day verified at 34° against the HOU observations — thunderstorms.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.6°. UKMO ran 3° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 4 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 | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13d · 2026-08-22 | 32° | 35° | 36° | — | 39° | — | — | 32–39° |
| 12d · 2026-08-23 | 34° | 33° | 35° | — | 40° | — | — | 33–40° |
| 11d · 2026-08-24 | 32° | 37° | 34° | — | 33° | — | — | 32–37° |
| 10d · 2026-08-25 | 35° | 37° | 33° | — | 34° | — | — | 33–37° |
| 9d · 2026-08-26 | 35° | 37° | 34° | 35° | 36° | — | — | 34–37° |
| 8d · 2026-08-27 | 34° | 36° | 33° | 34° | 37° | — | — | 33–37° |
| 7d · 2026-08-28 | 33° | 34° | 32° | 35° | 36° | — | — | 32–36° |
| 6d · 2026-08-29 | 28° | 34° | 31° | 31° | 37° | 34° | 33° | 28–37° |
| 5d · 2026-08-30 | 30° | 34° | 31° | 27° | 34° | 33° | 34° | 27–34° |
| 4d · 2026-08-31 | 31° | 34° | 31° | 34° | 35° | 32° | 32° | 31–35° |
| 3d · 2026-09-01 | 30° | 35° | 32° | 34° | 34° | 33° | 32° | 30–35° |
| 2d · 2026-09-02 | 31° | 34° | 31° | 33° | 33° | 34° | 31° | 31–34° |
| 1d · 2026-09-03 | 32° | 35° | 32° | 34° | 35° | 33° | 31° | 31–35° |
| actual | 34° |
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 HOU 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.