Was the forecast right for Phoenix on Mon Aug 3?
Phoenix, Arizona · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
8 days out, 5 models put Phoenix's Mon Aug 3 high anywhere from 102° to 115°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 113°. The day verified at 114° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — cloudy.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.6°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Mon Aug 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 Phoenix scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8d · 2026-07-26 | 110° | 110° | 102° | 104° | 115° | — | — | 102–115° |
| 7d · 2026-07-27 | 109° | 112° | 109° | 113° | 111° | — | — | 109–113° |
| 6d · 2026-07-28 | 110° | 110° | 110° | 113° | 110° | 107° | 105° | 105–113° |
| 5d · 2026-07-29 | 112° | 112° | 112° | 113° | 111° | 113° | 115° | 111–115° |
| 4d · 2026-07-30 | 114° | 112° | 113° | 113° | 111° | 114° | 116° | 111–116° |
| 3d · 2026-07-31 | 113° | 111° | 114° | 113° | 110° | 114° | 115° | 110–115° |
| 2d · 2026-08-01 | 113° | 111° | 114° | 115° | 112° | 114° | 116° | 111–116° |
| 1d · 2026-08-02 | 112° | 111° | 114° | 114° | 113° | 113° | 114° | 111–114° |
| actual | 114° |
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 Phoenix — 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 ECMWF IFS analysis (temperature_2m_max). 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.