Was the forecast right for Orlando on Fri Oct 2?
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 Oct 2 high anywhere from 78° to 85°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 87°. The day verified at 90° against the ORL observations, with 0.5 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.
UKMO landed closest, off by 1.8°. ECMWF ran 8° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 2 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 | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-17 | — | 86° | — | — | 88° | — | — | 86–88° |
| 14d · 2026-09-18 | 81° | 78° | 85° | — | 80° | — | — | 78–85° |
| 13d · 2026-09-19 | 82° | 87° | 86° | — | 82° | — | — | 82–87° |
| 12d · 2026-09-20 | 90° | 83° | 78° | — | 78° | — | — | 78–90° |
| 11d · 2026-09-21 | 86° | 81° | 88° | — | 80° | — | — | 80–88° |
| 10d · 2026-09-22 | 90° | 90° | 78° | — | 82° | — | — | 78–90° |
| 9d · 2026-09-23 | 89° | 91° | 89° | 88° | 94° | — | — | 88–94° |
| 8d · 2026-09-24 | 88° | 88° | 83° | 92° | 93° | — | — | 83–93° |
| 7d · 2026-09-25 | 89° | 84° | 90° | 89° | 83° | 91° | — | 83–91° |
| 6d · 2026-09-26 | 88° | 89° | 84° | 89° | 93° | 89° | 86° | 84–93° |
| 5d · 2026-09-27 | 89° | 88° | 90° | 87° | 86° | 90° | 87° | 86–90° |
| 4d · 2026-09-28 | 88° | 89° | 86° | 93° | 94° | 89° | 84° | 84–94° |
| 3d · 2026-09-29 | 89° | 89° | 81° | 93° | 94° | 92° | 89° | 81–94° |
| 2d · 2026-09-30 | 86° | 87° | 86° | 87° | 83° | 86° | 84° | 83–87° |
| 1d · 2026-10-01 | 84° | 88° | 82° | 88° | 83° | 87° | 88° | 82–88° |
| 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. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.