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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Sat Sep 5?

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 Sat Sep 5 high anywhere from 90° to 98°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 93°. The day verified at 93° against the ORL observations — thunderstorms.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. GFS ran 5° hot.

14 days out the models said 90–98; it hit 93. AIGFS led (off 0.1°F); GFS ran 5°F hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 5 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 · 2026-08-21 86° 102° 86–102°
14d · 2026-08-22 92° 90° 92° 98° 90–98°
13d · 2026-08-23 91° 94° 87° 93° 87–94°
12d · 2026-08-24 90° 92° 80° 101° 80–101°
11d · 2026-08-25 90° 84° 80° 99° 80–99°
10d · 2026-08-26 90° 92° 89° 104° 89–104°
9d · 2026-08-27 91° 96° 89° 88° 104° 88–104°
8d · 2026-08-28 88° 94° 88° 86° 102° 86–102°
7d · 2026-08-29 88° 91° 85° 92° 88° 85–92°
6d · 2026-08-30 90° 91° 89° 89° 100° 86° 92° 86–100°
5d · 2026-08-31 89° 92° 90° 91° 96° 92° 90° 89–96°
4d · 2026-09-01 90° 94° 89° 92° 96° 93° 92° 89–96°
3d · 2026-09-02 90° 92° 89° 93° 98° 93° 93° 89–98°
2d · 2026-09-03 90° 93° 90° 91° 93° 92° 94° 90–94°
1d · 2026-09-04 91° 94° 90° 84° 97° 92° 92° 84–97°
0d · 2026-09-05 93° 93° 90° 91° 98° 93° 93° 90–98°
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.