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Was the forecast right for New York on Thu Sep 10?

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 Thu Sep 10 high anywhere from 24° to 30°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 29° against the NYC observations, with 1.5 mm of precipitation — drizzle.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.5°. GFS ran 4° hot.

13 days out the models said 24–30; it hit 29. ICON led (off 0.5°C); GFS ran 4°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Thu Sep 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 York scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-26 21° 24° 21–24°
14d · 2026-08-27 24° 26° 22° 22–26°
13d · 2026-08-28 28° 30° 26° 24° 24–30°
12d · 2026-08-29 27° 30° 26° 31° 26–31°
11d · 2026-08-30 27° 23° 27° 27° 23–27°
10d · 2026-08-31 28° 24° 23° 29° 23–29°
9d · 2026-09-01 29° 29° 32° 30° 27° 27–32°
8d · 2026-09-02 32° 31° 32° 31° 30° 30–32°
7d · 2026-09-03 26° 34° 29° 32° 31° 26–34°
6d · 2026-09-04 29° 28° 33° 32° 26° 33° 26–33°
5d · 2026-09-05 29° 31° 32° 31° 30° 31° 31° 29–32°
4d · 2026-09-06 27° 28° 28° 32° 30° 30° 29° 27–32°
3d · 2026-09-07 29° 27° 28° 31° 30° 27° 30° 27–31°
2d · 2026-09-08 30° 31° 30° 30° 26° 27° 29° 26–31°
1d · 2026-09-09 30° 31° 30° 33° 33° 30° 31° 30–33°
0d · 2026-09-10 31° 32° 30° 32° 33° 29° 30° 29–33°
actual 29°

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.