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Was the forecast right for Miami on Sat Sep 12?

Miami, Florida · daily high temperature in °F · 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 87° to 91°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 88°. The day verified at 93° against the MIA observations — thunderstorms.

GFS landed closest, off by 1.4°. ECMWF ran 9° cold.

13 days out the models said 87–91; it hit 93. GFS led (off 1.4°F); ECMWF ran 9°F 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 84° 95° 84–95°
14d · 2026-08-29 90° 94° 95° 90–95°
13d · 2026-08-30 88° 90° 87° 91° 87–91°
12d · 2026-08-31 88° 88° 82° 95° 82–95°
11d · 2026-09-01 88° 90° 85° 93° 85–93°
10d · 2026-09-02 87° 91° 84° 94° 84–94°
9d · 2026-09-03 85° 89° 84° 94° 84–94°
8d · 2026-09-04 85° 94° 87° 91° 92° 85–94°
7d · 2026-09-05 86° 92° 85° 92° 94° 85–94°
6d · 2026-09-06 86° 90° 86° 92° 92° 89° 86–92°
5d · 2026-09-07 85° 91° 85° 90° 93° 93° 91° 85–93°
4d · 2026-09-08 85° 91° 81° 91° 86° 88° 89° 81–91°
3d · 2026-09-09 85° 88° 84° 92° 93° 87° 86° 84–93°
2d · 2026-09-10 85° 89° 87° 92° 92° 88° 86° 85–92°
1d · 2026-09-11 84° 89° 83° 91° 93° 88° 88° 83–93°
0d · 2026-09-12 87° 89° 84° 87° 94° 88° 88° 84–94°
actual 93°

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.