Was the forecast right for New Orleans on Fri Oct 23?
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 Fri Oct 23 high anywhere from 72° to 83°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 79°. The day verified at 81° against the NEW observations — fog.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.7°. ECMWF ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 23 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 · 2026-10-08 | — | 80° | — | — | 80° | — | — | 80–80° |
| 14d · 2026-10-09 | 79° | 72° | 83° | — | 75° | — | — | 72–83° |
| 13d · 2026-10-10 | 76° | 78° | 82° | — | 81° | — | — | 76–82° |
| 12d · 2026-10-11 | 84° | 76° | 84° | — | 74° | — | — | 74–84° |
| 11d · 2026-10-12 | — | 78° | 78° | — | 85° | — | — | 78–85° |
| 10d · 2026-10-13 | 79° | 84° | 79° | — | 84° | — | — | 79–84° |
| 9d · 2026-10-14 | 78° | 79° | 79° | 77° | 82° | — | — | 77–82° |
| 8d · 2026-10-15 | 78° | 75° | 79° | 78° | 78° | — | — | 75–79° |
| 7d · 2026-10-16 | 79° | 82° | 79° | 77° | 80° | — | — | 77–82° |
| 6d · 2026-10-17 | 77° | 78° | 77° | 78° | 81° | 78° | 77° | 77–81° |
| 5d · 2026-10-18 | 76° | 78° | 76° | 76° | 80° | 79° | 77° | 76–80° |
| 4d · 2026-10-19 | 77° | 79° | 76° | 77° | 79° | 80° | 77° | 76–80° |
| 3d · 2026-10-20 | 78° | 80° | 77° | 79° | 80° | 79° | 77° | 77–80° |
| 2d · 2026-10-21 | 78° | 80° | 77° | 80° | 80° | 80° | 77° | 77–80° |
| 1d · 2026-10-22 | 77° | 79° | 77° | 80° | 80° | 80° | 78° | 77–80° |
| 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.