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Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Tue Sep 8?

San Antonio, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAT observations

13 days out, 4 models put San Antonio's Tue Sep 8 high anywhere from 81° to 102°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 99°. The day verified at 100° against the SAT observations — drizzle.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. GEM ran 3° cold.

13 days out the models said 81–102; it hit 100. GFS led (off 0.1°F); GEM ran 3°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Sep 8 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
14d · 2026-08-25 92° 94° 103° 92–103°
13d · 2026-08-26 98° 81° 97° 102° 81–102°
12d · 2026-08-27 91° 98° 94° 100° 91–100°
11d · 2026-08-28 99° 99° 93° 97° 93–99°
10d · 2026-08-29 100° 97° 92° 102° 92–102°
9d · 2026-08-30 97° 93° 91° 98° 91–98°
8d · 2026-08-31 97° 96° 90° 78° 104° 78–104°
7d · 2026-09-01 97° 96° 94° 96° 100° 94–100°
6d · 2026-09-02 94° 96° 91° 94° 102° 94° 91–102°
5d · 2026-09-03 96° 95° 95° 97° 100° 95° 84° 84–100°
4d · 2026-09-04 95° 95° 97° 97° 99° 90° 86° 86–99°
3d · 2026-09-05 98° 95° 98° 95° 100° 99° 100° 95–100°
2d · 2026-09-06 98° 95° 99° 96° 99° 99° 98° 95–99°
1d · 2026-09-07 97° 96° 100° 97° 100° 99° 100° 96–100°
0d · 2026-09-08 98° 98° 100° 97° 100° 100° 99° 97–100°
actual 100°

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. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.