Was the forecast right for New York on Tue Sep 1?
New York, New York · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the NYC observations
12 days out, 4 models put New York's Tue Sep 1 high anywhere from 70° to 94°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 82°. The day verified at 82° against the NYC observations, with 0.39 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.0°. GFS ran 7° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 1 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 York scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12d · 2026-08-20 | 70° | 92° | 80° | — | 94° | — | — | 70–94° |
| 11d · 2026-08-21 | 82° | 92° | 78° | — | 88° | — | — | 78–92° |
| 10d · 2026-08-22 | 81° | 75° | 76° | — | 83° | — | — | 75–83° |
| 9d · 2026-08-23 | 80° | 73° | 82° | 90° | 78° | — | — | 73–90° |
| 8d · 2026-08-24 | 87° | 90° | 83° | 91° | 84° | — | — | 83–91° |
| 7d · 2026-08-25 | 90° | 93° | 93° | 87° | 78° | — | — | 78–93° |
| 6d · 2026-08-26 | 78° | 78° | 80° | 81° | 72° | 90° | 92° | 72–92° |
| 5d · 2026-08-27 | 78° | 87° | 83° | 71° | 86° | 85° | 80° | 71–87° |
| 4d · 2026-08-28 | 78° | 78° | 81° | 72° | 77° | 76° | 79° | 72–81° |
| 3d · 2026-08-29 | 77° | 84° | 92° | 89° | 79° | 88° | 88° | 77–92° |
| 2d · 2026-08-30 | 81° | 83° | 89° | 84° | 88° | 86° | 85° | 81–89° |
| 1d · 2026-08-31 | 77° | 84° | 83° | 81° | 89° | 82° | 82° | 77–89° |
| actual | 82° |
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 York — 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 NYC 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.