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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Tue Sep 15?

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 Tue Sep 15 high anywhere from 26° to 36°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 32° against the ORL observations, with 15.0 mm of precipitation — thunderstorms.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIFS ran 5° cold.

14 days out the models said 26–36; it hit 32. GFS led (off 0.2°C); AIFS ran 5°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 15 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 · 2026-08-31 34° 35° 34–35°
14d · 2026-09-01 33° 35° 26° 36° 26–36°
13d · 2026-09-02 33° 32° 32° 37° 32–37°
12d · 2026-09-03 30° 33° 29° 38° 29–38°
11d · 2026-09-04 32° 32° 28° 34° 28–34°
10d · 2026-09-05 31° 31° 32° 36° 31–36°
9d · 2026-09-06 31° 30° 31° 32° 35° 30–35°
8d · 2026-09-07 31° 31° 28° 31° 36° 28–36°
7d · 2026-09-08 32° 31° 29° 32° 36° 29–36°
6d · 2026-09-09 30° 34° 25° 32° 36° 31° 32° 25–36°
5d · 2026-09-10 32° 33° 31° 32° 34° 32° 32° 31–34°
4d · 2026-09-11 31° 33° 31° 31° 35° 31° 31° 31–35°
3d · 2026-09-12 31° 31° 31° 29° 35° 31° 31° 29–35°
2d · 2026-09-13 31° 31° 29° 32° 34° 31° 30° 29–34°
1d · 2026-09-14 30° 32° 31° 31° 35° 31° 29° 29–35°
0d · 2026-09-15 27° 31° 29° 32° 32° 31° 31° 27–32°
actual 32°

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.