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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Sun Sep 6?

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

14 days out, 4 models put Orlando's Sun Sep 6 high anywhere from 32° to 35°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 34°. The day verified at 34° against the ORL observations, with 1.3 mm of precipitation — thunderstorms.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.5°. AIFS ran 4° cold.

14 days out the models said 32–35; it hit 34. GEM led (off 0.5°C); AIFS ran 4°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sun Sep 6 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 · 2026-08-22 33° 36° 33–36°
14d · 2026-08-23 34° 35° 32° 35° 32–35°
13d · 2026-08-24 31° 33° 32° 38° 31–38°
12d · 2026-08-25 32° 31° 32° 37° 31–37°
11d · 2026-08-26 32° 33° 31° 37° 31–37°
10d · 2026-08-27 29° 35° 31° 40° 29–40°
9d · 2026-08-28 28° 31° 31° 32° 38° 28–38°
8d · 2026-08-29 31° 29° 32° 34° 35° 29–35°
7d · 2026-08-30 32° 35° 31° 29° 37° 29–37°
6d · 2026-08-31 31° 33° 32° 32° 36° 33° 33° 31–36°
5d · 2026-09-01 31° 32° 32° 32° 33° 33° 33° 31–33°
4d · 2026-09-02 31° 31° 32° 33° 36° 33° 34° 31–36°
3d · 2026-09-03 31° 34° 32° 35° 37° 34° 34° 31–37°
2d · 2026-09-04 32° 34° 32° 34° 37° 33° 32° 32–37°
1d · 2026-09-05 33° 35° 32° 35° 36° 33° 34° 32–36°
0d · 2026-09-06 30° 35° 30° 35° 36° 34° 33° 30–36°
actual 34°

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.