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Was the forecast right for Oklahoma City on Wed Sep 9?

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the OKC observations

14 days out, 4 models put Oklahoma City's Wed Sep 9 high anywhere from 96° to 111°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 102°. The day verified at 103° against the OKC observations — partly cloudy.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.7°. AIFS ran 3° cold.

14 days out the models said 96–111; it hit 103. ICON led (off 0.7°F); AIFS ran 3°F cold.
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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 Oklahoma City scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-25 98° 102° 98–102°
14d · 2026-08-26 97° 96° 104° 111° 96–111°
13d · 2026-08-27 100° 91° 102° 107° 91–107°
12d · 2026-08-28 95° 97° 99° 107° 95–107°
11d · 2026-08-29 98° 90° 100° 107° 90–107°
10d · 2026-08-30 96° 100° 100° 103° 96–103°
9d · 2026-08-31 95° 96° 102° 91° 106° 91–106°
8d · 2026-09-01 101° 100° 97° 94° 107° 94–107°
7d · 2026-09-02 99° 97° 99° 101° 103° 97–103°
6d · 2026-09-03 101° 99° 100° 99° 106° 99° 90° 90–106°
5d · 2026-09-04 100° 99° 102° 101° 103° 98° 100° 98–103°
4d · 2026-09-05 100° 100° 103° 100° 107° 102° 100° 100–107°
3d · 2026-09-06 100° 100° 102° 100° 106° 103° 101° 100–106°
2d · 2026-09-07 100° 100° 101° 100° 104° 101° 101° 100–104°
1d · 2026-09-08 101° 101° 101° 101° 104° 101° 101° 101–104°
0d · 2026-09-09 100° 102° 101° 102° 104° 102° 102° 100–104°
actual 103°

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 Oklahoma City — 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 OKC observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.