Was the forecast right for New Orleans on Sat Oct 10?
New Orleans, Louisiana · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the NEW observations
14 days out, 4 models put New Orleans's Sat Oct 10 high anywhere from 72° to 82°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 81°. The day verified at 81° against the NEW observations, with 0.08 in of precipitation — drizzle.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Oct 10 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 New Orleans scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-25 | — | 70° | — | — | 84° | — | — | 70–84° |
| 14d · 2026-09-26 | 72° | 80° | 78° | — | 82° | — | — | 72–82° |
| 13d · 2026-09-27 | 80° | 83° | 65° | — | 73° | — | — | 65–83° |
| 12d · 2026-09-28 | 80° | 82° | 75° | — | 77° | — | — | 75–82° |
| 11d · 2026-09-29 | 78° | 77° | 78° | — | 71° | — | — | 71–78° |
| 10d · 2026-09-30 | 79° | 75° | 79° | — | 78° | — | — | 75–79° |
| 9d · 2026-10-01 | 81° | 78° | 77° | 79° | 79° | — | — | 77–81° |
| 8d · 2026-10-02 | 81° | 78° | 78° | 79° | 77° | — | — | 77–81° |
| 7d · 2026-10-03 | 77° | 80° | 80° | 80° | 74° | — | — | 74–80° |
| 6d · 2026-10-04 | 77° | 78° | 76° | 80° | 75° | 80° | 75° | 75–80° |
| 5d · 2026-10-05 | 79° | 74° | 78° | 80° | 74° | 79° | 84° | 74–84° |
| 4d · 2026-10-06 | 80° | 79° | 76° | 77° | 78° | 80° | 75° | 75–80° |
| 3d · 2026-10-07 | 77° | 77° | 81° | 73° | 76° | 78° | 81° | 73–81° |
| 2d · 2026-10-08 | 78° | 78° | 81° | 82° | 80° | 78° | 81° | 78–82° |
| 1d · 2026-10-09 | 77° | 78° | 83° | 81° | 77° | 82° | 81° | 77–83° |
| actual | 81° |
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 New Orleans — 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 NEW 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.