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Was the forecast right for Oklahoma City on Mon Sep 14?

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 Mon Sep 14 high anywhere from 89° to 103°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 98°. The day verified at 101° against the OKC observations — partly cloudy.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.9°. ECMWF ran 6° cold.

14 days out the models said 89–103; it hit 101. GFS led (off 0.9°F); ECMWF ran 6°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Sep 14 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 · 2026-08-30 94° 109° 94–109°
14d · 2026-08-31 99° 89° 95° 103° 89–103°
13d · 2026-09-01 73° 90° 93° 83° 73–93°
12d · 2026-09-02 90° 89° 93° 103° 89–103°
11d · 2026-09-03 95° 62° 99° 88° 62–99°
10d · 2026-09-04 95° 87° 98° 100° 87–100°
9d · 2026-09-05 96° 78° 80° 95° 90° 78–96°
8d · 2026-09-06 97° 80° 91° 99° 91° 80–99°
7d · 2026-09-07 94° 98° 92° 98° 100° 92–100°
6d · 2026-09-08 95° 95° 99° 101° 101° 98° 98° 95–101°
5d · 2026-09-09 95° 97° 93° 100° 99° 98° 100° 93–100°
4d · 2026-09-10 95° 97° 96° 100° 102° 97° 100° 95–102°
3d · 2026-09-11 97° 98° 96° 99° 102° 98° 98° 96–102°
2d · 2026-09-12 97° 98° 92° 99° 103° 99° 99° 92–103°
1d · 2026-09-13 98° 98° 98° 98° 102° 98° 100° 98–102°
0d · 2026-09-14 98° 98° 95° 98° 102° 99° 99° 95–102°
actual 101°

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.