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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Fri Sep 4?

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 Fri Sep 4 high anywhere from 91° to 102°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 92°. The day verified at 93° against the ORL observations, with 0.48 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

AIFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. GFS ran 3° hot.

14 days out the models said 91–102; it hit 93. AIFS led (off 0.2°F); GFS ran 3°F hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 4 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
15d · 2026-08-20 89° 97° 89–97°
14d · 2026-08-21 91° 93° 91° 102° 91–102°
13d · 2026-08-22 92° 93° 91° 100° 91–100°
12d · 2026-08-23 90° 95° 89° 98° 89–98°
11d · 2026-08-24 89° 92° 89° 99° 89–99°
10d · 2026-08-25 91° 94° 83° 98° 83–98°
9d · 2026-08-26 91° 93° 87° 88° 104° 87–104°
8d · 2026-08-27 91° 95° 89° 89° 100° 89–100°
7d · 2026-08-28 88° 92° 82° 90° 100° 82–100°
6d · 2026-08-29 89° 92° 88° 93° 95° 89° 84° 84–95°
5d · 2026-08-30 91° 93° 88° 92° 98° 94° 87° 87–98°
4d · 2026-08-31 89° 92° 88° 91° 87° 93° 89° 87–93°
3d · 2026-09-01 91° 92° 90° 92° 96° 93° 93° 90–96°
2d · 2026-09-02 90° 90° 90° 94° 95° 94° 92° 90–95°
1d · 2026-09-03 90° 93° 90° 93° 98° 93° 93° 90–98°
0d · 2026-09-04 93° 92° 91° 93° 96° 92° 92° 91–96°
actual 93°

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.