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Was the forecast right for London on Mon Sep 7?

London, England · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the EGLL observations

14 days out, 4 models put London's Mon Sep 7 high anywhere from 21° to 24°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 24°. The day verified at 24° against the EGLL observations — cloudy.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIGFS ran 1° cold.

14 days out the models said 21–24; it hit 24. GFS led (off 0.1°C); AIGFS ran 1°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Sep 7 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 London scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-23 18° 24° 18–24°
14d · 2026-08-24 21° 24° 21° 22° 21–24°
13d · 2026-08-25 24° 18° 19° 22° 18–24°
12d · 2026-08-26 20° 17° 22° 21° 17–22°
11d · 2026-08-27 18° 22° 18° 16° 16–22°
10d · 2026-08-28 19° 16° 20° 20° 16–20°
9d · 2026-08-29 18° 23° 21° 27° 20° 18–27°
8d · 2026-08-30 20° 25° 22° 19° 27° 19–27°
7d · 2026-08-31 22° 24° 24° 25° 26° 22–26°
6d · 2026-09-01 23° 23° 20° 22° 28° 22° 20° 20–28°
5d · 2026-09-02 23° 25° 23° 26° 22° 22° 22° 22–26°
4d · 2026-09-03 22° 23° 23° 23° 23° 23° 21° 21–23°
3d · 2026-09-04 22° 22° 23° 24° 24° 22° 22° 22–24°
2d · 2026-09-05 22° 22° 23° 24° 24° 21° 21° 21–24°
1d · 2026-09-06 22° 23° 23° 24° 23° 22° 23° 22–24°
0d · 2026-09-07 23° 23° 25° 25° 24° 24° 24° 23–25°
actual 24°

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 London — 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 EGLL observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.