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Where the weather models disagree on lows in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, SLC station · daily low temperature in °F · the next 14 days · using data from 2026-10-16T01:50 UTC

The models are furthest apart on Sat Oct 17, where 7 of them put Salt Lake City's low anywhere from 37° to 55° — GEM coldest, GFS warmest. That spread is greater than typical for forecasts with a 2-day lead at this location.

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The band, day by day

35° 40° 45° 50° 55° Oct 15 Oct 17 Oct 19 Oct 21 Oct 23 Oct 25 Oct 27

The shaded band is the lowest to the highest model low each day; the line is the median model. The band pales as models drop out with lead — 4 to 7 models across these days — so a narrower far end is fewer opinions, not more agreement.

Every day, every model

lows in °F · typical spread is the median spread for that lead over the last month here

How this page is built

The models are the independent global centres Open-Meteo serves for this point — GFS, ECMWF IFS, ICON, GEM, UKMO and the AIFS and AIGFS AI models — as The Spread recorded them at its last sweep. NBM and every other blend are left out: a consensus product hides the disagreement this page exists to show.

Each model publishes to a different horizon, which is why Models is counted per day rather than once. Beyond day 14 only two models remain and both are NOAA's, so the page stops there. Range is the lowest to the highest model low; Spread is the gap between the coolest and warmest model.

A model's low is the coldest temperature it forecasts for that calendar day, midnight to midnight local time. That is usually the morning's low; behind a cold front arriving late in the day it can be the evening's instead.

Typical spread is the median spread for that lead over the last month here, and needs ten days of forecasts at that lead before it is shown. It is there because a wide band ten days out is ordinary and the same band tomorrow is not — so nothing on this page is called a divergence; the comparison is against what this lead usually looks like at this location.

Day Models Range Spread Typical spread Coldest Warmest
Thu Oct 15 7 36° to 49° 13° 12° GEM 36° GFS 49°
Fri Oct 16 7 34° to 50° 16° 12° GEM 34° GFS 50°
Sat Oct 17 7 37° to 55° 18° 12° GEM 37° GFS 55°
Sun Oct 18 7 39° to 57° 18° 12° ICON 39° GFS 57°
Mon Oct 19 7 40° to 56° 16° 12° ICON 40° GFS 56°
Tue Oct 20 7 48° to 56° 8° 11° GEM 48° GFS 56°
Wed Oct 21 7 47° to 56° 9° 12° ECMWF 47° GFS 56°
Thu Oct 22 5 47° to 53° 6° 13° GEM 47° GFS 53°
Fri Oct 23 5 40° to 49° 9° 11° GFS 40° AIFS 49°
Sat Oct 24 5 37° to 46° 9° 13° GEM 37° AIGFS 46°
Sun Oct 25 4 35° to 46° 11° 13° ECMWF 35° AIGFS 46°
Mon Oct 26 4 33° to 50° 17° 13° ECMWF 33° AIGFS 50°
Tue Oct 27 4 36° to 49° 13° 17° ECMWF 36° AIGFS 49°
Wed Oct 28 4 34° to 50° 16° 14° ECMWF 34° AIFS 50°

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