The Spread

Was the forecast right for Milan on Thu Sep 3?

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

12 days out, 4 models put Milan's Thu Sep 3 high anywhere from 72° to 81°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 91°. The day verified at 90° against the LIML observations — partly cloudy.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 1.0°. ECMWF ran 2° hot.

12 days out the models said 72–81; it hit 90. AIGFS led (off 1.0°F); ECMWF ran 2°F hot.
The shareable card for this receipt — what this page looks like pasted into a thread.

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 Milan scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
12d · 2026-08-22 81° 81° 72° 80° 72–81°
11d · 2026-08-23 72° 91° 76° 88° 72–91°
10d · 2026-08-24 83° 84° 73° 76° 73–84°
9d · 2026-08-25 85° 91° 83° 90° 89° 83–91°
8d · 2026-08-26 82° 92° 83° 90° 85° 82–92°
7d · 2026-08-27 82° 80° 83° 88° 80° 80–88°
6d · 2026-08-28 82° 87° 80° 78° 82° 87° 83° 78–87°
5d · 2026-08-29 84° 86° 87° 88° 90° 86° 85° 84–90°
4d · 2026-08-30 84° 90° 91° 90° 90° 88° 88° 84–91°
3d · 2026-08-31 86° 87° 90° 89° 89° 88° 90° 86–90°
2d · 2026-09-01 87° 90° 91° 89° 91° 90° 90° 87–91°
1d · 2026-09-02 88° 90° 91° 90° 90° 91° 92° 88–92°
0d · 2026-09-03 88° 91° 92° 91° 91° 91° 92° 88–92°
actual 90°

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.