Was the forecast right for Salt Lake City on Sat Oct 17?
Salt Lake City, Utah · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SLC observations
14 days out, 4 models put Salt Lake City's Sat Oct 17 high anywhere from 62° to 77°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 68°. The day verified at 71° against the SLC observations — clear.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.3°. GEM ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Oct 17 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 · 2026-10-02 | — | 58° | — | — | 82° | — | — | 58–82° |
| 14d · 2026-10-03 | 67° | 70° | 62° | — | 77° | — | — | 62–77° |
| 13d · 2026-10-04 | 66° | 65° | 57° | — | 68° | — | — | 57–68° |
| 12d · 2026-10-05 | 71° | 72° | 54° | — | 64° | — | — | 54–72° |
| 11d · 2026-10-06 | 51° | 64° | 63° | — | 64° | — | — | 51–64° |
| 10d · 2026-10-07 | 43° | 50° | 64° | — | 57° | — | — | 43–64° |
| 9d · 2026-10-08 | 58° | 47° | 60° | 64° | 70° | — | — | 47–70° |
| 8d · 2026-10-09 | 68° | 49° | 61° | 65° | 68° | — | — | 49–68° |
| 7d · 2026-10-10 | 68° | 68° | 60° | 64° | 72° | 67° | — | 60–72° |
| 6d · 2026-10-11 | 65° | 68° | 61° | 63° | 71° | 67° | 70° | 61–71° |
| 5d · 2026-10-12 | — | 67° | 66° | 63° | 70° | 61° | 66° | 61–70° |
| 4d · 2026-10-13 | 68° | 68° | 66° | 63° | 71° | 62° | 68° | 62–71° |
| 3d · 2026-10-14 | 68° | 69° | 65° | 64° | 72° | 64° | 68° | 64–72° |
| 2d · 2026-10-15 | 68° | 69° | 65° | 66° | 71° | 66° | 67° | 65–71° |
| 1d · 2026-10-16 | 68° | 68° | 67° | 67° | 71° | 68° | 68° | 67–71° |
| actual | 71° |
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.