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Was the forecast right for Milan on Wed Sep 16?

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 16 high anywhere from 21° to 30°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 27°. The day verified at 28° against the LIML observations — drizzle.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.1°. ECMWF ran 2° cold.

14 days out the models said 21–30; it hit 28. ICON led (off 0.1°C); ECMWF ran 2°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 16 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 · 2026-09-01 21° 32° 21–32°
14d · 2026-09-02 21° 24° 26° 30° 21–30°
13d · 2026-09-03 26° 20° 28° 29° 20–29°
12d · 2026-09-04 23° 21° 24° 27° 21–27°
11d · 2026-09-05 20° 27° 25° 24° 20–27°
10d · 2026-09-06 24° 28° 28° 28° 24–28°
9d · 2026-09-07 25° 28° 21° 25° 30° 21–30°
8d · 2026-09-08 26° 27° 22° 24° 29° 22–29°
7d · 2026-09-09 24° 28° 26° 28° 28° 24–28°
6d · 2026-09-10 25° 27° 24° 28° 23° 30° 26° 23–30°
5d · 2026-09-11 25° 28° 27° 28° 27° 29° 29° 25–29°
4d · 2026-09-12 26° 29° 27° 28° 27° 26° 27° 26–29°
3d · 2026-09-13 26° 26° 27° 29° 26° 24° 26° 24–29°
2d · 2026-09-14 26° 27° 25° 29° 27° 26° 27° 25–29°
1d · 2026-09-15 27° 27° 27° 29° 27° 27° 28° 27–29°
0d · 2026-09-16 27° 27° 26° 28° 27° 28° 28° 26–28°
actual 28°

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.