Was the forecast right for Salt Lake City on Fri Aug 28?
Salt Lake City, Utah · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SLC observations
8 days out, 5 models put Salt Lake City's Fri Aug 28 high anywhere from 29° to 37°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 33° against the SLC observations, with 2.5 mm of precipitation — showers.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.2°. UKMO ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Aug 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8d · 2026-08-20 | 31° | 29° | 37° | 33° | 35° | — | — | 29–37° |
| 7d · 2026-08-21 | 33° | 29° | 35° | 33° | 36° | 33° | — | 29–36° |
| 6d · 2026-08-22 | 32° | 30° | 34° | 32° | 33° | 33° | 34° | 30–34° |
| 5d · 2026-08-23 | 31° | 31° | 36° | 31° | 35° | 31° | 31° | 31–36° |
| 4d · 2026-08-24 | 32° | 32° | 35° | 33° | 33° | 30° | 32° | 30–35° |
| 3d · 2026-08-25 | 32° | 32° | 35° | 32° | 34° | 34° | 32° | 32–35° |
| 2d · 2026-08-26 | 31° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 34° | 32° | 29° | 29–34° |
| 1d · 2026-08-27 | 29° | 30° | 31° | 34° | 33° | 32° | 29° | 29–34° |
| actual | 33° |
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 SLC 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.