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Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Wed Sep 9?

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

13 days out, 4 models put San Antonio's Wed Sep 9 high anywhere from 31° to 39°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 35°. The day verified at 37° against the SAT observations — thunderstorms.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.8°. ECMWF ran 3° cold.

13 days out the models said 31–39; it hit 37. GEM led (off 0.8°C); ECMWF ran 3°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 9 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
15d · 2026-08-25 35° 39° 35–39°
14d · 2026-08-26 38° 29° 38° 29–38°
13d · 2026-08-27 36° 36° 31° 39° 31–39°
12d · 2026-08-28 36° 35° 36° 38° 35–38°
11d · 2026-08-29 37° 37° 36° 38° 36–38°
10d · 2026-08-30 35° 34° 34° 37° 34–37°
9d · 2026-08-31 35° 35° 33° 38° 33–38°
8d · 2026-09-01 35° 36° 33° 36° 38° 33–38°
7d · 2026-09-02 34° 35° 32° 36° 36° 32–36°
6d · 2026-09-03 35° 34° 31° 36° 35° 35° 31–36°
5d · 2026-09-04 34° 35° 34° 36° 37° 35° 30° 30–37°
4d · 2026-09-05 35° 35° 36° 36° 36° 36° 37° 35–37°
3d · 2026-09-06 35° 36° 37° 36° 37° 36° 36° 35–37°
2d · 2026-09-07 35° 35° 36° 36° 38° 37° 37° 35–38°
1d · 2026-09-08 35° 35° 37° 36° 36° 36° 36° 35–37°
0d · 2026-09-09 35° 35° 34° 36° 35° 35° 35° 34–36°
actual 37°

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.