Was the forecast right for Houston on Wed Sep 23?
Houston, Texas · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the HOU observations
14 days out, 4 models put Houston's Wed Sep 23 high anywhere from 29° to 36°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 35°. The day verified at 36° against the HOU observations — thunderstorms.
AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.3°. UKMO ran 2° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-08 | — | 29° | — | — | 35° | — | — | 29–35° |
| 14d · 2026-09-09 | 34° | 29° | 32° | — | 36° | — | — | 29–36° |
| 13d · 2026-09-10 | 30° | 32° | 32° | — | 34° | — | — | 30–34° |
| 12d · 2026-09-11 | 33° | 29° | 30° | — | 34° | — | — | 29–34° |
| 11d · 2026-09-12 | 35° | 32° | 30° | — | 34° | — | — | 30–35° |
| 10d · 2026-09-13 | 34° | 36° | 28° | — | 33° | — | — | 28–36° |
| 9d · 2026-09-14 | 30° | 34° | 31° | — | 34° | — | — | 30–34° |
| 8d · 2026-09-15 | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 33° | — | — | 33–35° |
| 7d · 2026-09-16 | 34° | 36° | 35° | 36° | 33° | — | — | 33–36° |
| 6d · 2026-09-17 | 35° | 33° | 35° | 36° | 34° | 38° | 35° | 33–38° |
| 5d · 2026-09-18 | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 36° | 35–36° |
| 4d · 2026-09-19 | 34° | 36° | 34° | 36° | 35° | 35° | 36° | 34–36° |
| 3d · 2026-09-20 | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 34° | 35° | 36° | 34–36° |
| 2d · 2026-09-21 | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 36° | 35° | 35–36° |
| 1d · 2026-09-22 | 34° | 36° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 36° | 34° | 34–36° |
| actual | 36° |
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. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.