Was the forecast right for Salt Lake City on Fri Jul 24?
Salt Lake City, Utah · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
7 days out, 6 models put Salt Lake City's Fri Jul 24 high anywhere from 82° to 100°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 100°. The day verified at 99° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 0.01 in of precipitation — drizzle.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.8°. GFS ran 3° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Jul 24 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 Salt Lake City scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7d · 2026-07-17 | 97° | 95° | 82° | 96° | 100° | 92° | — | 82–100° |
| 6d · 2026-07-18 | 96° | 94° | 94° | 96° | 102° | 98° | 91° | 91–102° |
| 5d · 2026-07-19 | 97° | 96° | 95° | 96° | 100° | 97° | 92° | 92–100° |
| 4d · 2026-07-20 | 97° | 97° | 101° | 96° | 104° | 98° | 95° | 95–104° |
| 3d · 2026-07-21 | 97° | 98° | 102° | 99° | 102° | 99° | 99° | 97–102° |
| 2d · 2026-07-22 | 96° | 98° | 100° | 99° | 103° | 100° | 98° | 96–103° |
| 1d · 2026-07-23 | 97° | 97° | 100° | 100° | 102° | 101° | 98° | 97–102° |
| actual | 99° |
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 Salt Lake City — 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.