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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Fri Sep 11?

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 11 high anywhere from 87° to 94°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 92°. The day verified at 93° against the ORL observations, with 0.01 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. ECMWF ran 6° cold.

14 days out the models said 87–94; it hit 93. AIGFS led (off 0.2°F); ECMWF ran 6°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 11 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 · 2026-08-27 91° 103° 91–103°
14d · 2026-08-28 87° 91° 88° 94° 87–94°
13d · 2026-08-29 88° 91° 88° 98° 88–98°
12d · 2026-08-30 88° 89° 89° 96° 88–96°
11d · 2026-08-31 89° 92° 90° 94° 89–94°
10d · 2026-09-01 91° 93° 88° 98° 88–98°
9d · 2026-09-02 92° 92° 89° 90° 94° 89–94°
8d · 2026-09-03 86° 93° 90° 93° 101° 86–101°
7d · 2026-09-04 88° 93° 89° 93° 98° 88–98°
6d · 2026-09-05 86° 93° 89° 92° 96° 92° 90° 86–96°
5d · 2026-09-06 90° 93° 88° 91° 97° 87° 94° 87–97°
4d · 2026-09-07 89° 93° 88° 91° 96° 91° 91° 88–96°
3d · 2026-09-08 89° 93° 84° 93° 97° 90° 89° 84–97°
2d · 2026-09-09 89° 92° 89° 93° 91° 89° 94° 89–94°
1d · 2026-09-10 90° 93° 89° 93° 92° 92° 90° 89–93°
0d · 2026-09-11 89° 93° 87° 93° 96° 92° 89° 87–96°
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.