Was the forecast right for Philadelphia on Wed Oct 14?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the PHL observations
14 days out, 4 models put Philadelphia's Wed Oct 14 high anywhere from 17° to 23°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 28°. The day verified at 27° against the PHL observations, with 1.0 mm of precipitation — drizzle.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.5°. AIFS ran 3° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Oct 14 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 · 2026-09-29 | — | 17° | — | — | 19° | — | — | 17–19° |
| 14d · 2026-09-30 | 23° | 19° | 17° | — | 21° | — | — | 17–23° |
| 13d · 2026-10-01 | 12° | 15° | 26° | — | 21° | — | — | 12–26° |
| 12d · 2026-10-02 | 14° | 11° | 17° | — | 28° | — | — | 11–28° |
| 11d · 2026-10-03 | 25° | 14° | 17° | — | 23° | — | — | 14–25° |
| 10d · 2026-10-04 | 24° | 11° | 27° | — | 16° | — | — | 11–27° |
| 9d · 2026-10-05 | 25° | 18° | 26° | 20° | 22° | — | — | 18–26° |
| 8d · 2026-10-06 | 23° | 22° | 20° | 24° | 18° | — | — | 18–24° |
| 7d · 2026-10-07 | 23° | 24° | 15° | 25° | 17° | — | — | 15–25° |
| 6d · 2026-10-08 | 26° | 26° | 17° | 28° | 24° | 20° | 20° | 17–28° |
| 5d · 2026-10-09 | 28° | 25° | 27° | 24° | 21° | 27° | 21° | 21–28° |
| 4d · 2026-10-10 | 30° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 26–30° |
| 3d · 2026-10-11 | 29° | 28° | 25° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 27° | 25–30° |
| 2d · 2026-10-12 | — | 29° | 28° | 29° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 26–29° |
| 1d · 2026-10-13 | 30° | 29° | 28° | 25° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 25–30° |
| actual | 27° |
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.