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Was the forecast right for Paris on Wed Sep 16?

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

14 days out, 4 models put Paris's Wed Sep 16 high anywhere from 57° to 78°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 71°. The day verified at 73° against the LFPB observations — drizzle.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.3°. UKMO ran 4° cold.

14 days out the models said 57–78; it hit 73. GFS led (off 0.3°F); UKMO ran 4°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 16 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
15d · 2026-09-01 64° 86° 64–86°
14d · 2026-09-02 68° 57° 71° 78° 57–78°
13d · 2026-09-03 76° 59° 66° 87° 59–87°
12d · 2026-09-04 70° 64° 70° 79° 64–79°
11d · 2026-09-05 64° 77° 68° 75° 64–77°
10d · 2026-09-06 64° 72° 70° 67° 64–72°
9d · 2026-09-07 64° 66° 70° 67° 75° 64–75°
8d · 2026-09-08 65° 71° 67° 65° 74° 65–74°
7d · 2026-09-09 67° 64° 71° 64° 88° 64–88°
6d · 2026-09-10 65° 69° 65° 68° 72° 67° 67° 65–72°
5d · 2026-09-11 68° 67° 70° 68° 73° 69° 70° 67–73°
4d · 2026-09-12 69° 69° 71° 69° 73° 67° 69° 67–73°
3d · 2026-09-13 70° 70° 71° 72° 73° 70° 69° 69–73°
2d · 2026-09-14 70° 70° 71° 71° 72° 72° 69° 69–72°
1d · 2026-09-15 70° 71° 71° 71° 71° 71° 68° 68–71°
0d · 2026-09-16 70° 71° 71° 73° 74° 72° 70° 70–74°
actual 73°

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.