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Was the forecast right for Milan on Wed Sep 9?

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

14 days out, 4 models put Milan's Wed Sep 9 high anywhere from 76° to 90°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 77°. The day verified at 79° against the LIML observations, with 1.09 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

AIFS landed closest, off by 0.5°. ECMWF ran 7° cold.

14 days out the models said 76–90; it hit 79. AIFS led (off 0.5°F); ECMWF ran 7°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 9 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
15d · 2026-08-25 83° 80° 80–83°
14d · 2026-08-26 76° 82° 87° 90° 76–90°
13d · 2026-08-27 74° 89° 73° 97° 73–97°
12d · 2026-08-28 75° 68° 77° 82° 68–82°
11d · 2026-08-29 69° 90° 93° 90° 69–93°
10d · 2026-08-30 67° 80° 89° 83° 67–89°
9d · 2026-08-31 81° 78° 90° 86° 94° 78–94°
8d · 2026-09-01 75° 83° 90° 82° 94° 75–94°
7d · 2026-09-02 82° 73° 82° 82° 78° 73–82°
6d · 2026-09-03 74° 74° 88° 83° 76° 77° 86° 74–88°
5d · 2026-09-04 77° 74° 89° 76° 82° 72° 83° 72–89°
4d · 2026-09-05 75° 76° 75° 76° 85° 75° 80° 75–85°
3d · 2026-09-06 76° 74° 79° 75° 77° 74° 82° 74–82°
2d · 2026-09-07 76° 74° 78° 75° 79° 78° 83° 74–83°
1d · 2026-09-08 75° 76° 75° 75° 80° 79° 81° 75–81°
0d · 2026-09-09 78° 74° 72° 77° 76° 78° 82° 72–82°
actual 79°

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.