Was the forecast right for Philadelphia on Sat Oct 3?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the PHL observations
14 days out, 4 models put Philadelphia's Sat Oct 3 high anywhere from 59° to 73°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 72°. The day verified at 73° against the PHL observations — cloudy.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.5°. AIFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Oct 3 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 Philadelphia scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-18 | — | 76° | — | — | 79° | — | — | 76–79° |
| 14d · 2026-09-19 | 70° | 59° | 73° | — | 69° | — | — | 59–73° |
| 13d · 2026-09-20 | 74° | 72° | 74° | — | 82° | — | — | 72–82° |
| 12d · 2026-09-21 | 75° | 68° | 77° | — | 72° | — | — | 68–77° |
| 11d · 2026-09-22 | 69° | 65° | 77° | — | 82° | — | — | 65–82° |
| 10d · 2026-09-23 | 74° | 71° | 74° | — | 64° | — | — | 64–74° |
| 9d · 2026-09-24 | 74° | 80° | 80° | 80° | 82° | — | — | 74–82° |
| 8d · 2026-09-25 | 68° | 84° | 69° | 82° | 90° | — | — | 68–90° |
| 7d · 2026-09-26 | 70° | 73° | 63° | 71° | 74° | — | — | 63–74° |
| 6d · 2026-09-27 | 74° | 71° | 68° | 73° | 63° | 68° | 68° | 63–74° |
| 5d · 2026-09-28 | 74° | 71° | 70° | 81° | 76° | 68° | 76° | 68–81° |
| 4d · 2026-09-29 | 74° | 72° | 71° | 69° | 74° | 72° | 71° | 69–74° |
| 3d · 2026-09-30 | 71° | 71° | 72° | 73° | 74° | 67° | 71° | 67–74° |
| 2d · 2026-10-01 | 73° | 72° | 72° | 72° | 73° | 70° | 70° | 70–73° |
| 1d · 2026-10-02 | 69° | 70° | 72° | 72° | 72° | 71° | 72° | 69–72° |
| 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 Philadelphia — 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 PHL 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.