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Was the forecast right for London on Tue Sep 15?

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 Tue Sep 15 high anywhere from 63° to 81°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 71°. The day verified at 73° against the EGLL observations — drizzle.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIGFS ran 4° cold.

14 days out the models said 63–81; it hit 73. GFS led (off 0.2°F); AIGFS ran 4°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 15 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 · 2026-08-31 61° 79° 61–79°
14d · 2026-09-01 64° 63° 63° 81° 63–81°
13d · 2026-09-02 66° 56° 72° 74° 56–74°
12d · 2026-09-03 71° 57° 66° 82° 57–82°
11d · 2026-09-04 69° 64° 64° 80° 64–80°
10d · 2026-09-05 62° 70° 68° 69° 62–70°
9d · 2026-09-06 66° 67° 70° 70° 69° 66–70°
8d · 2026-09-07 66° 64° 69° 64° 70° 64–70°
7d · 2026-09-08 68° 75° 66° 70° 79° 66–79°
6d · 2026-09-09 66° 72° 70° 69° 81° 71° 71° 66–81°
5d · 2026-09-10 66° 73° 69° 69° 75° 66° 69° 66–75°
4d · 2026-09-11 68° 70° 70° 72° 68° 70° 69° 68–72°
3d · 2026-09-12 68° 69° 72° 73° 72° 70° 71° 68–73°
2d · 2026-09-13 69° 69° 72° 72° 72° 71° 70° 69–72°
1d · 2026-09-14 69° 69° 70° 72° 72° 72° 72° 69–72°
0d · 2026-09-15 69° 69° 71° 70° 74° 71° 72° 69–74°
actual 73°

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.