Was the forecast right for Los Angeles on Wed Sep 23?
Los Angeles, California · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the FHMC1 observations
14 days out, 4 models put Los Angeles's Wed Sep 23 high anywhere from 26° to 34°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 31° against the FHMC1 observations — cloudy.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIGFS ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-08 | — | 21° | — | — | 27° | — | — | 21–27° |
| 14d · 2026-09-09 | 34° | 26° | 31° | — | 30° | — | — | 26–34° |
| 13d · 2026-09-10 | 25° | 24° | 26° | — | 28° | — | — | 24–28° |
| 12d · 2026-09-11 | 25° | 23° | 27° | — | 31° | — | — | 23–31° |
| 11d · 2026-09-12 | 25° | 22° | 30° | — | 29° | — | — | 22–30° |
| 10d · 2026-09-13 | 24° | 24° | 24° | — | 24° | — | — | 24–24° |
| 9d · 2026-09-14 | 24° | 27° | 24° | — | 27° | — | — | 24–27° |
| 8d · 2026-09-15 | 27° | 25° | 26° | 35° | 31° | — | — | 25–35° |
| 7d · 2026-09-16 | 26° | 26° | 26° | 31° | 29° | — | — | 26–31° |
| 6d · 2026-09-17 | 26° | 25° | 25° | 32° | 31° | 29° | 30° | 25–32° |
| 5d · 2026-09-18 | 26° | 23° | 32° | 30° | 27° | 32° | 36° | 23–36° |
| 4d · 2026-09-19 | 27° | 24° | 32° | 30° | 29° | 35° | 30° | 24–35° |
| 3d · 2026-09-20 | 28° | 24° | 33° | 32° | 29° | 34° | 29° | 24–34° |
| 2d · 2026-09-21 | 28° | 25° | 32° | 33° | 31° | 37° | 29° | 25–37° |
| 1d · 2026-09-22 | 28° | 26° | 33° | 33° | 31° | 35° | 30° | 26–35° |
| actual | 31° |
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.