Was the forecast right for Houston on Thu Oct 1?
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 Thu Oct 1 high anywhere from 30° to 36°;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, with 16.3 mm of precipitation — thunderstorms.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.3°. ECMWF ran 2° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Oct 1 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 · 2026-09-16 | — | 27° | — | — | 36° | — | — | 27–36° |
| 14d · 2026-09-17 | 30° | 32° | 33° | — | 36° | — | — | 30–36° |
| 13d · 2026-09-18 | 32° | 31° | 30° | — | 33° | — | — | 30–33° |
| 12d · 2026-09-19 | 28° | 28° | 28° | — | 28° | — | — | 28–28° |
| 11d · 2026-09-20 | 30° | 29° | 27° | — | 34° | — | — | 27–34° |
| 10d · 2026-09-21 | 32° | 27° | 29° | — | 31° | — | — | 27–32° |
| 9d · 2026-09-22 | 27° | 24° | 29° | 31° | 32° | — | — | 24–32° |
| 8d · 2026-09-23 | 33° | 33° | 28° | 29° | 30° | — | — | 28–33° |
| 7d · 2026-09-24 | 32° | 33° | 32° | 31° | 32° | — | — | 31–33° |
| 6d · 2026-09-25 | 30° | 34° | 32° | 32° | 34° | 33° | 31° | 30–34° |
| 5d · 2026-09-26 | 30° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 33° | 29° | 29–33° |
| 4d · 2026-09-27 | 33° | 33° | 33° | 32° | 30° | 33° | 32° | 30–33° |
| 3d · 2026-09-28 | 32° | 33° | 33° | 33° | 31° | 34° | 33° | 31–34° |
| 2d · 2026-09-29 | 32° | 33° | 32° | 33° | 32° | 34° | 33° | 32–34° |
| 1d · 2026-09-30 | 32° | 33° | 30° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 30–33° |
| 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.