Was the forecast right for Los Angeles on Thu Sep 3?
Los Angeles, California · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the FHMC1 observations
12 days out, 4 models put Los Angeles's Thu Sep 3 high anywhere from 29° to 34°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 28°. The day verified at 28° against the FHMC1 observations — clear.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Sep 3 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 Los Angeles scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12d · 2026-08-22 | 29° | 32° | 32° | — | 34° | — | — | 29–34° |
| 11d · 2026-08-23 | 27° | 30° | 33° | — | 40° | — | — | 27–40° |
| 10d · 2026-08-24 | 27° | 25° | 28° | — | 30° | — | — | 25–30° |
| 9d · 2026-08-25 | 29° | 30° | 27° | 29° | 29° | — | — | 27–30° |
| 8d · 2026-08-26 | 30° | 28° | 32° | 27° | 32° | — | — | 27–32° |
| 7d · 2026-08-27 | 29° | 31° | 33° | 37° | 31° | — | — | 29–37° |
| 6d · 2026-08-28 | 29° | 30° | 32° | 30° | 27° | 34° | 27° | 27–34° |
| 5d · 2026-08-29 | 27° | 29° | 32° | 29° | 31° | 31° | 28° | 27–32° |
| 4d · 2026-08-30 | 27° | 27° | 31° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 27–31° |
| 3d · 2026-08-31 | 26° | 26° | 29° | 30° | 28° | 29° | 27° | 26–30° |
| 2d · 2026-09-01 | 26° | 25° | 28° | 30° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 25–30° |
| 1d · 2026-09-02 | 26° | 24° | 28° | 30° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 24–30° |
| actual | 28° |
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 Los Angeles — 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 FHMC1 observations. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 4 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.