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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Wed Sep 2?

Orlando, Florida · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ORL observations

14 days out, 4 models put Orlando's Wed Sep 2 high anywhere from 87° to 97°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 87°. The day verified at 90° against the ORL observations, with 0.07 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.9°. UKMO ran 8° cold.

14 days out the models said 87–97; it hit 90. AIGFS led (off 0.9°F); UKMO ran 8°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
14d · 2026-08-19 90° 94° 87° 97° 87–97°
13d · 2026-08-20 91° 94° 91° 98° 91–98°
12d · 2026-08-21 88° 95° 90° 100° 88–100°
11d · 2026-08-22 88° 94° 89° 96° 88–96°
10d · 2026-08-23 88° 93° 88° 100° 88–100°
9d · 2026-08-24 88° 92° 84° 90° 98° 84–98°
8d · 2026-08-25 90° 93° 78° 93° 98° 78–98°
7d · 2026-08-26 89° 92° 86° 88° 100° 86–100°
6d · 2026-08-27 88° 91° 84° 90° 97° 91° 92° 84–97°
5d · 2026-08-28 87° 89° 86° 93° 95° 90° 88° 86–95°
4d · 2026-08-29 89° 89° 90° 92° 98° 89° 86° 86–98°
3d · 2026-08-30 89° 89° 90° 91° 94° 91° 88° 88–94°
2d · 2026-08-31 86° 85° 86° 86° 88° 89° 88° 85–89°
1d · 2026-09-01 86° 88° 84° 89° 92° 92° 86° 84–92°
0d · 2026-09-02 85° 89° 83° 87° 93° 89° 82° 82–93°
actual 90°

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 ORL observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.