Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Fri Sep 4?
San Antonio, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAT observations
10 days out, 4 models put San Antonio's Fri Sep 4 high anywhere from 93° to 101°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 94°. The day verified at 91° against the SAT observations — thunderstorms.
UKMO landed closest, off by 1.3°. GFS ran 8° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 4 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 San Antonio scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10d · 2026-08-25 | 99° | 99° | 101° | — | 93° | — | — | 93–101° |
| 9d · 2026-08-26 | 99° | 99° | 96° | 97° | 102° | — | — | 96–102° |
| 8d · 2026-08-27 | 99° | 98° | 98° | 96° | 100° | — | — | 96–100° |
| 7d · 2026-08-28 | 98° | 91° | 98° | 97° | 100° | — | — | 91–100° |
| 6d · 2026-08-29 | 99° | 86° | 93° | 99° | 99° | 102° | 94° | 86–102° |
| 5d · 2026-08-30 | 90° | 83° | 101° | 96° | 99° | 102° | 97° | 83–102° |
| 4d · 2026-08-31 | 92° | 92° | 97° | 96° | 98° | 100° | 97° | 92–100° |
| 3d · 2026-09-01 | 92° | 97° | 96° | 97° | 97° | 96° | 86° | 86–97° |
| 2d · 2026-09-02 | 91° | 92° | 99° | 97° | 82° | 98° | 94° | 82–99° |
| 1d · 2026-09-03 | 94° | 94° | 97° | 95° | 83° | 96° | 92° | 83–97° |
| actual | 91° |
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 San Antonio — 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 SAT 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.