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Was the forecast right for Paris on Wed Sep 2?

Paris, Île-de-France Region · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the LFPB observations

3 days out, 7 models put Paris's Wed Sep 2 high anywhere from 22° to 27°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 25°. The day verified at 26° against the LFPB observations — cloudy.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. ECMWF ran 2° cold.

3 days out the models said 22–27; it hit 26. GFS led (off 0.2°C); ECMWF ran 2°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 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 Paris scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
3d · 2026-08-30 23° 24° 22° 25° 27° 24° 24° 22–27°
2d · 2026-08-31 24° 23° 22° 26° 26° 24° 24° 22–26°
1d · 2026-09-01 24° 24° 24° 25° 27° 24° 25° 24–27°
0d · 2026-09-02 24° 24° 24° 25° 26° 25° 25° 24–26°
actual 26°

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 Paris — 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 LFPB observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.