Was the forecast right for New York on Wed Oct 7?
New York, New York · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the NYC observations
14 days out, 4 models put New York's Wed Oct 7 high anywhere from 66° to 70°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 68°. The day verified at 65° against the NYC observations — clear.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.3°. GFS ran 6° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Oct 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-22 | — | 72° | — | — | 67° | — | — | 67–72° |
| 14d · 2026-09-23 | 68° | 66° | 70° | — | 68° | — | — | 66–70° |
| 13d · 2026-09-24 | 60° | 64° | 63° | — | 54° | — | — | 54–64° |
| 12d · 2026-09-25 | 68° | 69° | 63° | — | 72° | — | — | 63–72° |
| 11d · 2026-09-26 | 63° | 60° | 63° | — | 69° | — | — | 60–69° |
| 10d · 2026-09-27 | 67° | 65° | 70° | — | 59° | — | — | 59–70° |
| 9d · 2026-09-28 | 61° | 61° | 64° | 61° | 62° | — | — | 61–64° |
| 8d · 2026-09-29 | 63° | 62° | 59° | 59° | 63° | — | — | 59–63° |
| 7d · 2026-09-30 | 63° | 62° | 62° | 61° | 62° | — | — | 61–63° |
| 6d · 2026-10-01 | 63° | 63° | 63° | 65° | 66° | 67° | 68° | 63–68° |
| 5d · 2026-10-02 | 67° | 65° | 64° | 63° | 68° | 67° | 66° | 63–68° |
| 4d · 2026-10-03 | 69° | 69° | 66° | 66° | 73° | 70° | 67° | 66–73° |
| 3d · 2026-10-04 | 68° | 67° | 64° | 65° | 71° | 69° | 67° | 64–71° |
| 2d · 2026-10-05 | 67° | 66° | 66° | 64° | 70° | 67° | 68° | 64–70° |
| 1d · 2026-10-06 | 67° | 66° | 65° | 68° | 71° | 69° | 68° | 65–71° |
| actual | 65° |
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.