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Was the forecast right for Milan on Wed Sep 2?

Milan, Lombardy · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the LIML observations

11 days out, 4 models put Milan's Wed Sep 2 high anywhere from 25° to 33°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 32° against the LIML observations — cloudy.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.0°. AIGFS ran 2° cold.

11 days out the models said 25–33; it hit 32. UKMO led (off 0.0°C); AIGFS ran 2°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 2 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 Milan scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
11d · 2026-08-22 25° 27° 27° 33° 25–33°
10d · 2026-08-23 22° 31° 24° 29° 22–31°
9d · 2026-08-24 26° 27° 23° 29° 32° 23–32°
8d · 2026-08-25 29° 30° 25° 30° 30° 25–30°
7d · 2026-08-26 25° 31° 28° 31° 31° 25–31°
6d · 2026-08-27 26° 28° 27° 30° 28° 29° 29° 26–30°
5d · 2026-08-28 27° 29° 25° 22° 29° 29° 31° 22–31°
4d · 2026-08-29 28° 28° 28° 29° 31° 28° 28° 28–31°
3d · 2026-08-30 28° 31° 31° 31° 31° 30° 29° 28–31°
2d · 2026-08-31 29° 30° 31° 31° 30° 30° 30° 29–31°
1d · 2026-09-01 30° 30° 31° 30° 31° 32° 32° 30–32°
0d · 2026-09-02 30° 30° 31° 31° 31° 32° 32° 30–32°
actual 32°

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