Was the forecast right for Orlando on Fri Jul 24?
Orlando, Florida · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
7 days out, 5 models put Orlando's Fri Jul 24 high anywhere from 29° to 35°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 34°. The day verified at 33° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 2.3 mm of precipitation — drizzle.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.6°. GFS ran 3° hot.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Jul 24 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 Orlando scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7d · 2026-07-17 | 33° | 33° | 33° | 35° | 29° | — | — | 29–35° |
| 6d · 2026-07-18 | 33° | 33° | 32° | 35° | 35° | 35° | — | 32–35° |
| 5d · 2026-07-19 | 34° | 34° | 34° | 35° | 36° | 36° | 36° | 34–36° |
| 4d · 2026-07-20 | 34° | 34° | 33° | 34° | 37° | 35° | 36° | 33–37° |
| 3d · 2026-07-21 | 33° | 34° | 35° | 36° | 37° | 35° | 36° | 33–37° |
| 2d · 2026-07-22 | 33° | 34° | 33° | 36° | 36° | 34° | 34° | 33–36° |
| 1d · 2026-07-23 | 33° | 35° | 34° | 36° | 35° | 34° | 36° | 33–36° |
| 0d · 2026-07-24 | 32° | 34° | 32° | 36° | 36° | 34° | 34° | 32–36° |
| 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 Orlando — 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 ECMWF IFS analysis (temperature_2m_max). Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.