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Was the forecast right for New York on Wed Sep 9?

New York, New York · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the NYC observations

13 days out, 4 models put New York's Wed Sep 9 high anywhere from 24° to 35°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 29°. The day verified at 28° against the NYC observations — cloudy.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.1°. GFS ran 4° hot.

13 days out the models said 24–35; it hit 28. ICON led (off 0.1°C); GFS ran 4°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 9 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-25 25° 28° 25–28°
14d · 2026-08-26 25° 25° 25° 25–25°
13d · 2026-08-27 25° 27° 35° 24° 24–35°
12d · 2026-08-28 26° 33° 30° 27° 26–33°
11d · 2026-08-29 26° 26° 25° 37° 25–37°
10d · 2026-08-30 26° 23° 25° 26° 23–26°
9d · 2026-08-31 25° 25° 30° 22° 22–30°
8d · 2026-09-01 28° 30° 30° 26° 25° 25–30°
7d · 2026-09-02 28° 32° 31° 24° 34° 24–34°
6d · 2026-09-03 24° 29° 24° 29° 24° 31° 24–31°
5d · 2026-09-04 27° 28° 31° 29° 32° 31° 31° 27–32°
4d · 2026-09-05 28° 27° 30° 30° 31° 30° 31° 27–31°
3d · 2026-09-06 28° 27° 31° 29° 30° 29° 30° 27–31°
2d · 2026-09-07 28° 28° 31° 29° 30° 27° 29° 27–31°
1d · 2026-09-08 28° 28° 31° 30° 32° 27° 30° 27–32°
0d · 2026-09-09 29° 29° 29° 30° 32° 28° 30° 28–32°
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 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. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.