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Where the weather models disagree in Oklahoma City

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Oklahoma City, Will Rogers station · daily high temperature in °C · the next 14 days · using data from 2026-09-03T18:50 UTC

The models are furthest apart on Wed Sep 16, where 4 of them put Oklahoma City's high anywhere from 23° to 39° — AIGFS coldest, GFS hottest. That spread is greater than average for forecasts with a 13-day lead at this location.

The band, day by day

25° 30° 35° 40° 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 35° to 38° AIFS 35° GFS 38° 35° to 40°
Fri Sep 4 7 35° to 39° UKMO 35° GFS 39° 37° to 40°
Sat Sep 5 7 36° to 40° GEM 36° GFS 40° 37° to 41°
Sun Sep 6 7 36° to 39° AIGFS 36° ICON 39° 37° to 40°
Mon Sep 7 7 37° to 40° AIGFS 37° GFS 40° 37° to 40°
Tue Sep 8 7 36° to 41° UKMO 36° GFS 41° 37° to 40°
Wed Sep 9 6 37° to 41° AIGFS 37° GFS 41° 37° to 40°
Thu Sep 10 5 34° to 40° AIFS 34° GFS 40° 36° to 42°
Fri Sep 11 5 33° to 40° AIFS 33° GFS 40° 34° to 41°
Sat Sep 12 5 34° to 37° ECMWF 34° AIGFS 37° 33° to 42°
Sun Sep 13 4 30° to 38° ECMWF 30° GFS 38° 33° to 40°
Mon Sep 14 4 31° to 37° GFS 31° AIGFS 37° 33° to 39°
Tue Sep 15 4 31° to 40° AIGFS 31° GFS 40° 31° to 40°
Wed Sep 16 4 23° to 39° 16° AIGFS 23° GFS 39° 28° to 39°

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