Was the forecast right for Salt Lake City on Wed Aug 12?
Salt Lake City, Utah · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
14 days out, 4 models put Salt Lake City's Wed Aug 12 high anywhere from 29° to 39°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 30°. The day verified at 31° against the ECMWF IFS analysis, with 2.5 mm of precipitation — drizzle.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.4°. AIFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Aug 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-07-28 | — | 26° | — | — | 30° | — | — | 26–30° |
| 14d · 2026-07-29 | 32° | 29° | 36° | — | 39° | — | — | 29–39° |
| 13d · 2026-07-30 | 32° | 28° | 35° | — | 38° | — | — | 28–38° |
| 12d · 2026-07-31 | 30° | 32° | 35° | — | 36° | — | — | 30–36° |
| 11d · 2026-08-01 | 30° | 24° | 34° | — | 37° | — | — | 24–37° |
| 10d · 2026-08-02 | 30° | 30° | 32° | — | 37° | — | — | 30–37° |
| 9d · 2026-08-03 | 28° | 31° | 31° | 31° | 38° | — | — | 28–38° |
| 8d · 2026-08-04 | 27° | 32° | 35° | 32° | 38° | — | — | 27–38° |
| 7d · 2026-08-05 | 25° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 39° | 35° | — | 25–39° |
| 6d · 2026-08-06 | 27° | 30° | 34° | 32° | 38° | 35° | 34° | 27–38° |
| 5d · 2026-08-07 | 26° | 28° | 33° | 30° | 35° | 34° | 32° | 26–35° |
| 4d · 2026-08-08 | 26° | 28° | 31° | 30° | 33° | 30° | 34° | 26–34° |
| 3d · 2026-08-09 | 26° | 29° | 32° | 35° | 33° | 31° | 32° | 26–35° |
| 2d · 2026-08-10 | 27° | 30° | 30° | 34° | 33° | 33° | 31° | 27–34° |
| 1d · 2026-08-11 | 28° | 30° | 30° | 32° | 32° | 29° | 28° | 28–32° |
| actual | 31° |
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.