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Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Sat Sep 12?

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 Sat Sep 12 high anywhere from 89° to 95°; 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 0.4°. AIFS ran 3° cold.

13 days out the models said 89–95; it hit 100. GFS led (off 0.4°F); AIFS ran 3°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 12 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 · 2026-08-28 96° 106° 96–106°
14d · 2026-08-29 99° 100° 95° 95–100°
13d · 2026-08-30 94° 90° 89° 95° 89–95°
12d · 2026-08-31 98° 97° 86° 102° 86–102°
11d · 2026-09-01 100° 94° 88° 95° 88–100°
10d · 2026-09-02 98° 97° 88° 94° 88–98°
9d · 2026-09-03 100° 94° 98° 101° 94–101°
8d · 2026-09-04 94° 96° 97° 98° 84° 84–98°
7d · 2026-09-05 99° 85° 98° 95° 99° 85–99°
6d · 2026-09-06 99° 97° 97° 98° 101° 105° 97–105°
5d · 2026-09-07 98° 99° 101° 98° 101° 102° 98° 98–102°
4d · 2026-09-08 99° 98° 100° 99° 101° 102° 97° 97–102°
3d · 2026-09-09 99° 97° 100° 98° 101° 101° 96° 96–101°
2d · 2026-09-10 99° 97° 99° 97° 100° 101° 96° 96–101°
1d · 2026-09-11 99° 98° 101° 99° 101° 103° 100° 98–103°
0d · 2026-09-12 97° 98° 99° 98° 100° 101° 99° 97–101°
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.