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Was the forecast right for Paris on Fri Sep 4?

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

5 days out, 7 models put Paris's Fri Sep 4 high anywhere from 25° to 31°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 28°. The day verified at 28° against the LFPB observations — cloudy.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.1°. GFS ran 2° hot.

5 days out the models said 25–31; it hit 28. GEM led (off 0.1°C); GFS ran 2°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 4 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
5d · 2026-08-30 29° 29° 25° 30° 31° 28° 26° 25–31°
4d · 2026-08-31 28° 28° 28° 29° 28° 30° 29° 28–30°
3d · 2026-09-01 27° 28° 29° 31° 31° 26° 28° 26–31°
2d · 2026-09-02 27° 27° 26° 30° 30° 28° 26° 26–30°
1d · 2026-09-03 27° 27° 27° 30° 31° 27° 27° 27–31°
0d · 2026-09-04 28° 27° 29° 28° 30° 27° 27° 27–30°
actual 28°

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.