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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Tue Sep 15?

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 Tue Sep 15 high anywhere from 78° to 97°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 88°. The day verified at 90° against the ORL observations, with 0.59 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.4°. AIFS ran 9° cold.

14 days out the models said 78–97; it hit 90. GFS led (off 0.4°F); AIFS ran 9°F 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 93° 95° 93–95°
14d · 2026-09-01 92° 94° 78° 97° 78–97°
13d · 2026-09-02 92° 90° 89° 98° 89–98°
12d · 2026-09-03 86° 92° 85° 100° 85–100°
11d · 2026-09-04 89° 89° 82° 93° 82–93°
10d · 2026-09-05 87° 89° 89° 96° 87–96°
9d · 2026-09-06 88° 87° 87° 89° 95° 87–95°
8d · 2026-09-07 87° 89° 82° 87° 97° 82–97°
7d · 2026-09-08 89° 89° 84° 89° 97° 84–97°
6d · 2026-09-09 86° 92° 78° 90° 96° 88° 90° 78–96°
5d · 2026-09-10 90° 91° 88° 90° 93° 90° 89° 88–93°
4d · 2026-09-11 88° 91° 88° 89° 94° 87° 88° 87–94°
3d · 2026-09-12 88° 89° 88° 84° 95° 88° 89° 84–95°
2d · 2026-09-13 87° 89° 85° 90° 93° 88° 85° 85–93°
1d · 2026-09-14 87° 90° 89° 88° 94° 88° 85° 85–94°
0d · 2026-09-15 81° 88° 84° 89° 90° 87° 88° 81–90°
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.