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Was the forecast right for London on Wed Sep 9?

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

14 days out, 4 models put London's Wed Sep 9 high anywhere from 62° to 77°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 65°. The day verified at 66° against the EGLL observations — cloudy.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.2°. UKMO ran 3° cold.

14 days out the models said 62–77; it hit 66. ICON led (off 0.2°F); UKMO ran 3°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

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

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-25 67° 74° 67–74°
14d · 2026-08-26 64° 62° 77° 66° 62–77°
13d · 2026-08-27 60° 68° 63° 78° 60–78°
12d · 2026-08-28 68° 62° 65° 68° 62–68°
11d · 2026-08-29 67° 65° 71° 65° 65–71°
10d · 2026-08-30 67° 61° 69° 67° 61–69°
9d · 2026-08-31 67° 58° 69° 63° 71° 58–71°
8d · 2026-09-01 63° 66° 62° 65° 68° 62–68°
7d · 2026-09-02 64° 65° 64° 66° 66° 64–66°
6d · 2026-09-03 63° 63° 64° 67° 68° 66° 63° 63–68°
5d · 2026-09-04 64° 63° 65° 66° 70° 67° 64° 63–70°
4d · 2026-09-05 63° 65° 68° 66° 68° 66° 66° 63–68°
3d · 2026-09-06 65° 64° 69° 67° 69° 68° 66° 64–69°
2d · 2026-09-07 66° 64° 69° 69° 67° 68° 68° 64–69°
1d · 2026-09-08 66° 63° 66° 66° 64° 67° 66° 63–67°
0d · 2026-09-09 65° 65° 65° 68° 64° 66° 63° 63–68°
actual 66°

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.