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Was the forecast right for New York on Tue Sep 15?

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

14 days out, 4 models put New York's Tue Sep 15 high anywhere from 16° to 33°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 22°. The day verified at 22° against the NYC observations — partly cloudy.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.2°. GFS ran 2° hot.

14 days out the models said 16–33; it hit 22. UKMO led (off 0.2°C); GFS ran 2°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 15 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 · 2026-08-31 28° 31° 28–31°
14d · 2026-09-01 20° 16° 33° 26° 16–33°
13d · 2026-09-02 33° 20° 34° 37° 20–37°
12d · 2026-09-03 27° 31° 24° 29° 24–31°
11d · 2026-09-04 30° 22° 25° 22° 22–30°
10d · 2026-09-05 24° 28° 22° 38° 22–38°
9d · 2026-09-06 21° 27° 34° 29° 21–34°
8d · 2026-09-07 24° 24° 25° 20° 30° 20–30°
7d · 2026-09-08 23° 20° 24° 20° 26° 20–26°
6d · 2026-09-09 22° 22° 28° 24° 31° 26° 22–31°
5d · 2026-09-10 21° 24° 21° 21° 26° 20° 23° 20–26°
4d · 2026-09-11 22° 21° 22° 21° 24° 20° 24° 20–24°
3d · 2026-09-12 22° 21° 21° 22° 24° 20° 22° 20–24°
2d · 2026-09-13 22° 22° 21° 22° 24° 22° 23° 21–24°
1d · 2026-09-14 22° 22° 21° 24° 24° 22° 22° 21–24°
0d · 2026-09-15 21° 21° 21° 23° 24° 22° 22° 21–24°
actual 22°

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.