Was the forecast right for Orlando on Sun Aug 2?
Orlando, Florida · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
14 days out, 4 models put Orlando's Sun Aug 2 high anywhere from 82° to 95°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 85°. The day verified at 86° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 0.88 in of precipitation — rain.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.1°. ECMWF ran 7° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Aug 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-07-18 | — | 88° | — | — | 102° | — | — | 88–102° |
| 14d · 2026-07-19 | 82° | 84° | 87° | — | 95° | — | — | 82–95° |
| 13d · 2026-07-20 | 84° | 86° | 78° | — | 96° | — | — | 78–96° |
| 12d · 2026-07-21 | 82° | 82° | 80° | — | 93° | — | — | 80–93° |
| 11d · 2026-07-22 | 84° | 86° | 79° | — | 98° | — | — | 79–98° |
| 10d · 2026-07-23 | 86° | 84° | 79° | — | 77° | — | — | 77–86° |
| 9d · 2026-07-24 | 86° | 84° | 86° | 92° | 98° | — | — | 84–98° |
| 8d · 2026-07-25 | 84° | 82° | 87° | 94° | 85° | — | — | 82–94° |
| 7d · 2026-07-26 | 86° | 88° | 80° | 94° | 95° | 85° | — | 80–95° |
| 6d · 2026-07-27 | 84° | 87° | 79° | 94° | 94° | 89° | 92° | 79–94° |
| 5d · 2026-07-28 | 83° | 80° | 82° | 92° | 85° | 88° | 93° | 80–93° |
| 4d · 2026-07-29 | 84° | 83° | 83° | 93° | 96° | 89° | 88° | 83–96° |
| 3d · 2026-07-30 | 84° | 82° | 88° | 87° | 94° | 88° | 86° | 82–94° |
| 2d · 2026-07-31 | 83° | 81° | 82° | 91° | 84° | 90° | 86° | 81–91° |
| 1d · 2026-08-01 | 82° | 86° | 79° | 85° | 88° | 86° | 85° | 79–88° |
| actual | 86° |
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). 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.