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Was the forecast right for Miami on Sat Sep 12?

Miami, Florida · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the MIA observations

13 days out, 4 models put Miami's Sat Sep 12 high anywhere from 31° to 33°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 34° against the MIA observations — thunderstorms.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.8°. ECMWF ran 5° cold.

13 days out the models said 31–33; it hit 34. GFS led (off 0.8°C); ECMWF ran 5°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 12 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 Miami scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-28 29° 35° 29–35°
14d · 2026-08-29 32° 34° 35° 32–35°
13d · 2026-08-30 31° 32° 31° 33° 31–33°
12d · 2026-08-31 31° 31° 28° 35° 28–35°
11d · 2026-09-01 31° 32° 30° 34° 30–34°
10d · 2026-09-02 31° 33° 29° 34° 29–34°
9d · 2026-09-03 29° 32° 29° 34° 29–34°
8d · 2026-09-04 29° 34° 31° 33° 34° 29–34°
7d · 2026-09-05 30° 33° 30° 33° 34° 30–34°
6d · 2026-09-06 30° 32° 30° 33° 33° 32° 30–33°
5d · 2026-09-07 29° 33° 30° 32° 34° 34° 33° 29–34°
4d · 2026-09-08 30° 33° 27° 33° 30° 31° 32° 27–33°
3d · 2026-09-09 30° 31° 29° 33° 34° 31° 30° 29–34°
2d · 2026-09-10 30° 32° 31° 33° 34° 31° 30° 30–34°
1d · 2026-09-11 29° 32° 28° 33° 34° 31° 31° 28–34°
0d · 2026-09-12 31° 32° 29° 31° 35° 31° 31° 29–35°
actual 34°

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