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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Sat Sep 12?

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 12 high anywhere from 88° to 102°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 91°. The day verified at 90° against the ORL observations, with 0.7 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

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

14 days out the models said 88–102; it hit 90. AIFS 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 12 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 · 2026-08-28 90° 93° 90–93°
14d · 2026-08-29 88° 94° 89° 102° 88–102°
13d · 2026-08-30 90° 89° 88° 96° 88–96°
12d · 2026-08-31 90° 92° 91° 92° 90–92°
11d · 2026-09-01 92° 93° 82° 98° 82–98°
10d · 2026-09-02 91° 93° 92° 96° 91–96°
9d · 2026-09-03 83° 93° 88° 93° 102° 83–102°
8d · 2026-09-04 89° 93° 89° 92° 96° 89–96°
7d · 2026-09-05 88° 93° 89° 92° 96° 88–96°
6d · 2026-09-06 89° 92° 89° 91° 97° 89° 92° 89–97°
5d · 2026-09-07 88° 92° 84° 92° 95° 90° 91° 84–95°
4d · 2026-09-08 89° 93° 89° 89° 98° 91° 92° 89–98°
3d · 2026-09-09 89° 92° 89° 93° 97° 92° 89° 89–97°
2d · 2026-09-10 89° 93° 89° 91° 97° 92° 89° 89–97°
1d · 2026-09-11 89° 93° 89° 92° 97° 92° 92° 89–97°
0d · 2026-09-12 90° 92° 88° 90° 95° 91° 92° 88–95°
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.