Was the forecast right for Houston on Fri Oct 9?
Houston, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the HOU observations
14 days out, 4 models put Houston's Fri Oct 9 high anywhere from 73° to 87°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 90°. The day verified at 92° against the HOU observations — partly cloudy.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.7°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 9 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 · 2026-09-24 | — | 70° | — | — | 84° | — | — | 70–84° |
| 14d · 2026-09-25 | 84° | 73° | 81° | — | 87° | — | — | 73–87° |
| 13d · 2026-09-26 | 85° | 77° | 84° | — | 87° | — | — | 77–87° |
| 12d · 2026-09-27 | 82° | 82° | 70° | — | 78° | — | — | 70–82° |
| 11d · 2026-09-28 | 86° | 86° | 85° | — | 75° | — | — | 75–86° |
| 10d · 2026-09-29 | 85° | 82° | 82° | — | 86° | — | — | 82–86° |
| 9d · 2026-09-30 | 86° | 84° | 87° | 84° | 83° | — | — | 83–87° |
| 8d · 2026-10-01 | 87° | 85° | 88° | 86° | 82° | — | — | 82–88° |
| 7d · 2026-10-02 | 87° | 84° | 87° | 86° | 78° | — | — | 78–87° |
| 6d · 2026-10-03 | 86° | 87° | 85° | 84° | 74° | 89° | 86° | 74–89° |
| 5d · 2026-10-04 | 86° | 88° | 86° | 81° | 84° | 88° | 88° | 81–88° |
| 4d · 2026-10-05 | 87° | 89° | 87° | 89° | 88° | 92° | 89° | 87–92° |
| 3d · 2026-10-06 | 88° | 90° | 87° | 90° | 82° | 91° | 89° | 82–91° |
| 2d · 2026-10-07 | 88° | 88° | 87° | 92° | 88° | 92° | 89° | 87–92° |
| 1d · 2026-10-08 | 89° | 88° | 90° | 90° | 89° | 91° | 90° | 88–91° |
| actual | 92° |
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.