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Was the forecast right for Milan on Wed Sep 9?

Milan, Lombardy · daily high temperature in °C · 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 24° to 32°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 25°. The day verified at 26° against the LIML observations, with 27.7 mm of precipitation — thunderstorms.

AIFS landed closest, off by 0.3°. ECMWF ran 4° cold.

14 days out the models said 24–32; it hit 26. AIFS led (off 0.3°C); ECMWF ran 4°C 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 28° 27° 27–28°
14d · 2026-08-26 24° 28° 30° 32° 24–32°
13d · 2026-08-27 23° 32° 23° 36° 23–36°
12d · 2026-08-28 24° 20° 25° 28° 20–28°
11d · 2026-08-29 21° 32° 34° 32° 21–34°
10d · 2026-08-30 20° 26° 32° 28° 20–32°
9d · 2026-08-31 27° 26° 32° 30° 34° 26–34°
8d · 2026-09-01 24° 28° 32° 28° 34° 24–34°
7d · 2026-09-02 28° 23° 28° 28° 25° 23–28°
6d · 2026-09-03 23° 23° 31° 28° 24° 25° 30° 23–31°
5d · 2026-09-04 25° 24° 32° 24° 28° 22° 28° 22–32°
4d · 2026-09-05 24° 25° 24° 24° 29° 24° 27° 24–29°
3d · 2026-09-06 24° 24° 26° 24° 25° 23° 28° 23–28°
2d · 2026-09-07 24° 24° 26° 24° 26° 26° 28° 24–28°
1d · 2026-09-08 24° 24° 24° 24° 26° 26° 27° 24–27°
0d · 2026-09-09 26° 23° 22° 25° 25° 26° 28° 22–28°
actual 26°

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.