Was the forecast right for Oklahoma City on Fri Sep 25?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the OKC observations
14 days out, 4 models put Oklahoma City's Fri Sep 25 high anywhere from 23° to 40°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 33° against the OKC observations, with 0.8 mm of precipitation — drizzle.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.5°. ICON ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 25 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 | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-10 | — | 32° | — | — | 37° | — | — | 32–37° |
| 14d · 2026-09-11 | 31° | 26° | 23° | — | 40° | — | — | 23–40° |
| 13d · 2026-09-12 | 36° | 24° | 27° | — | 35° | — | — | 24–36° |
| 12d · 2026-09-13 | 33° | 33° | 28° | — | 28° | — | — | 28–33° |
| 11d · 2026-09-14 | 24° | 32° | 30° | — | 33° | — | — | 24–33° |
| 10d · 2026-09-15 | 32° | 35° | 28° | — | 36° | — | — | 28–36° |
| 9d · 2026-09-16 | 23° | 26° | 22° | 27° | 35° | — | — | 22–35° |
| 8d · 2026-09-17 | 27° | 27° | 22° | 29° | 29° | — | — | 22–29° |
| 7d · 2026-09-18 | 27° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 24° | — | — | 24–28° |
| 6d · 2026-09-19 | 23° | 26° | 25° | 31° | 26° | 29° | 30° | 23–31° |
| 5d · 2026-09-20 | 23° | 29° | 33° | 28° | 35° | 31° | 32° | 23–35° |
| 4d · 2026-09-21 | 23° | 29° | 33° | 31° | 33° | 32° | 32° | 23–33° |
| 3d · 2026-09-22 | 24° | 28° | 31° | 30° | 33° | 27° | 30° | 24–33° |
| 2d · 2026-09-23 | 25° | 26° | 27° | 29° | 27° | 27° | 31° | 25–31° |
| 1d · 2026-09-24 | 28° | 30° | 31° | 31° | 33° | 28° | 32° | 28–33° |
| actual | 33° |
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. 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.