Was the forecast right for Oklahoma City on Tue Oct 13?
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 Tue Oct 13 high anywhere from 63° to 82°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 91°. The day verified at 91° against the OKC observations, with 0.19 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.2°. GEM ran 3° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Tue Oct 13 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 · 2026-09-28 | — | 65° | — | — | 85° | — | — | 65–85° |
| 14d · 2026-09-29 | 65° | 75° | 63° | — | 82° | — | — | 63–82° |
| 13d · 2026-09-30 | 54° | 86° | 85° | — | 79° | — | — | 54–86° |
| 12d · 2026-10-01 | 54° | 71° | 83° | — | 81° | — | — | 54–83° |
| 11d · 2026-10-02 | 53° | 57° | 86° | — | 87° | — | — | 53–87° |
| 10d · 2026-10-03 | 79° | 64° | 78° | — | 86° | — | — | 64–86° |
| 9d · 2026-10-04 | 79° | 48° | 83° | 90° | 74° | — | — | 48–90° |
| 8d · 2026-10-05 | 82° | 78° | 87° | 91° | 73° | — | — | 73–91° |
| 7d · 2026-10-06 | 79° | 92° | 89° | 92° | 88° | 92° | — | 79–92° |
| 6d · 2026-10-07 | 79° | 90° | 90° | 93° | 93° | 72° | 76° | 72–93° |
| 5d · 2026-10-08 | 91° | 89° | 90° | 94° | 91° | 89° | 95° | 89–95° |
| 4d · 2026-10-09 | 89° | 91° | 89° | 95° | 96° | 87° | 95° | 87–96° |
| 3d · 2026-10-10 | 89° | 88° | 88° | 95° | 93° | 89° | 90° | 88–95° |
| 2d · 2026-10-11 | 89° | 89° | 92° | 94° | 89° | 90° | 92° | 89–94° |
| 1d · 2026-10-12 | 90° | 90° | 91° | 94° | 91° | 90° | 92° | 90–94° |
| actual | 91° |
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.