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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Thu Jul 30?

Orlando, Florida · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis

13 days out, 4 models put Orlando's Thu Jul 30 high anywhere from 27° to 38°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 29°. The day verified at 29° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 12.2 mm of precipitation — rain.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.3°. GEM ran 4° hot.

13 days out the models said 27–38; it hit 29. UKMO led (off 0.3°C); GEM ran 4°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Thu Jul 30 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
13d · 2026-07-17 27° 32° 30° 38° 27–38°
12d · 2026-07-18 31° 33° 33° 35° 31–35°
11d · 2026-07-19 31° 34° 30° 38° 30–38°
10d · 2026-07-20 30° 29° 34° 33° 29–34°
9d · 2026-07-21 29° 30° 32° 34° 36° 29–36°
8d · 2026-07-22 32° 29° 31° 33° 36° 29–36°
7d · 2026-07-23 31° 30° 30° 30° 30° 30–31°
6d · 2026-07-24 29° 28° 30° 34° 34° 33° 34° 28–34°
5d · 2026-07-25 30° 30° 29° 35° 31° 33° 32° 29–35°
4d · 2026-07-26 31° 30° 30° 32° 33° 31° 31° 30–33°
3d · 2026-07-27 29° 31° 27° 33° 31° 30° 30° 27–33°
2d · 2026-07-28 28° 31° 29° 29° 32° 31° 28° 28–32°
1d · 2026-07-29 27° 31° 30° 32° 31° 31° 31° 27–32°
0d · 2026-07-30 27° 27° 30° 34° 32° 28° 29° 27–34°
actual 29°

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.