Was the forecast right for Minneapolis on Mon Oct 12?
Minneapolis, Minnesota · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the MSP observations
14 days out, 4 models put Minneapolis's Mon Oct 12 high anywhere from 14° to 22°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 27°. The day verified at 27° against the MSP observations — cloudy.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIFS ran 3° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Mon Oct 12 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 Minneapolis scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-27 | — | 23° | — | — | 13° | — | — | 13–23° |
| 14d · 2026-09-28 | 22° | 17° | 14° | — | 18° | — | — | 14–22° |
| 13d · 2026-09-29 | 11° | 18° | 12° | — | 14° | — | — | 11–18° |
| 12d · 2026-09-30 | 10° | 9° | 17° | — | 14° | — | — | 9–17° |
| 11d · 2026-10-01 | 10° | 11° | 15° | — | 23° | — | — | 10–23° |
| 10d · 2026-10-02 | 9° | 8° | 22° | — | 24° | — | — | 8–24° |
| 9d · 2026-10-03 | 26° | 25° | 13° | 14° | 19° | — | — | 13–26° |
| 8d · 2026-10-04 | 23° | 10° | 26° | 25° | 14° | — | — | 10–26° |
| 7d · 2026-10-05 | 23° | 12° | 26° | 24° | 15° | — | — | 12–26° |
| 6d · 2026-10-06 | 20° | 16° | 26° | 27° | 14° | 13° | — | 13–27° |
| 5d · 2026-10-07 | 19° | 19° | 21° | 27° | 19° | 21° | 21° | 19–27° |
| 4d · 2026-10-08 | 22° | 27° | 23° | 26° | 29° | 18° | 22° | 18–29° |
| 3d · 2026-10-09 | 24° | 23° | 23° | 27° | 24° | 21° | 23° | 21–27° |
| 2d · 2026-10-10 | 25° | 25° | 28° | 32° | 26° | 25° | 26° | 25–32° |
| 1d · 2026-10-11 | 24° | 25° | 28° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 24° | 24–30° |
| actual | 27° |
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 Minneapolis — 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 MSP observations. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.