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Was the forecast right for Houston on Sat Sep 26?

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 Sat Sep 26 high anywhere from 28° to 35°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 32°. The day verified at 33° against the HOU observations — drizzle.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.2°. ECMWF ran 1° cool.

14 days out the models said 28–35; it hit 33. UKMO led (off 0.2°C); ECMWF ran 1°C cool.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 26 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
15d · 2026-09-11 — 28° — — 33° — — 28–33°
14d · 2026-09-12 31° 28° 32° — 35° — — 28–35°
13d · 2026-09-13 32° 34° 32° — 32° — — 32–34°
12d · 2026-09-14 32° 33° 32° — 34° — — 32–34°
11d · 2026-09-15 33° 33° 37° — 31° — — 31–37°
10d · 2026-09-16 32° 34° 30° — 37° — — 30–37°
9d · 2026-09-17 32° 29° 34° 31° 33° — — 29–34°
8d · 2026-09-18 32° 32° 34° 31° 36° — — 31–36°
7d · 2026-09-19 33° 35° 33° 33° 34° — — 33–35°
6d · 2026-09-20 34° 34° 34° 34° 35° 34° 33° 33–35°
5d · 2026-09-21 34° 33° 34° 34° 35° 33° 34° 33–35°
4d · 2026-09-22 33° 33° 34° 34° 32° 34° 33° 32–34°
3d · 2026-09-23 32° 32° 34° 30° 33° 33° 32° 30–34°
2d · 2026-09-24 32° 32° 33° 31° 34° 33° 32° 31–34°
1d · 2026-09-25 32° 32° 31° 32° 33° 32° 33° 31–33°
actual 33°

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.