The Spread

Where the weather models disagree in New York

Outlook Model accuracy

New York, Central Park station · daily high temperature in °C · the next 14 days · using data from 2026-09-03T12:50 UTC

The models are furthest apart on Mon Sep 14, where 4 of them put New York's high anywhere from 19° to 32° — ECMWF coldest, AIGFS hottest. That spread is greater than average for forecasts with a 11-day lead at this location.

The band, day by day

20° 25° 30° Sept 3 Sept 5 Sept 7 Sept 9 Sept 11 Sept 13 Sept 15

The shaded band is the lowest to the highest model high each day; the line is the median model. The band pales as models drop out with lead — 4 to 7 models across these days — so a narrower far end is fewer opinions, not more agreement.

Every day, every model

highs in °C · typical spread is the median for that lead over the last month here

How this page is built

The models are the independent global centres Open-Meteo serves for this point — GFS, ECMWF IFS, ICON, GEM, UKMO and the AIFS and AIGFS AI models — as The Spread recorded them at its last sweep. NBM and every other blend are left out: a consensus product hides the disagreement this page exists to show.

Each model publishes to a different horizon, which is why Models is counted per day rather than once. Beyond day 14 only two models remain and both are NOAA's, so the page stops there. Range is the lowest to the highest model high; Spread is the difference between those two printed numbers.

Typical spread is the median spread for that lead over the last month of forecasts made here, shown only once ten days of them exist. It is there because a wide band ten days out is ordinary and the same band tomorrow is not — so nothing on this page is called a divergence; the comparison is against what this lead usually looks like at this location.

GEFS p10–p90 is one centre's ensemble, shown beside the band and never as it: it verifies a few degrees warm at every lead.

Day Models Range Spread Typical spread Coldest Hottest GEFS p10–p90
Thu Sep 3 7 28° to 32° AIFS 28° GFS 32° 29° to 31°
Fri Sep 4 7 27° to 32° ICON 27° GFS 32° 30° to 32°
Sat Sep 5 7 25° to 28° GEM 25° GFS 28° 26° to 29°
Sun Sep 6 7 23° to 26° AIFS 23° ICON 26° 23° to 27°
Mon Sep 7 7 24° to 27° ECMWF 24° GFS 27° 26° to 29°
Tue Sep 8 7 26° to 29° AIFS 26° GFS 29° 25° to 30°
Wed Sep 9 6 24° to 31° GFS 24° ICON 31° 24° to 34°
Thu Sep 10 5 26° to 34° AIFS 26° AIGFS 34° 25° to 34°
Fri Sep 11 5 22° to 32° 10° ECMWF 22° GEM 32° 24° to 35°
Sat Sep 12 4 20° to 26° ECMWF 20° GFS 26° 23° to 34°
Sun Sep 13 4 19° to 28° ECMWF 19° GFS 28° 24° to 33°
Mon Sep 14 4 19° to 32° 13° ECMWF 19° AIGFS 32° 21° to 34°
Tue Sep 15 4 24° to 31° ECMWF 24° AIGFS 31° 22° to 33°
Wed Sep 16 4 22° to 26° ECMWF 22° AIFS 26° 24° to 34°

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