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Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Sun Sep 13?

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 Sun Sep 13 high anywhere from 86° to 98°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 98°. The day verified at 100° against the SAT observations — drizzle.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIFS ran 5° cold.

13 days out the models said 86–98; it hit 100. GFS led (off 0.1°F); AIFS ran 5°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sun Sep 13 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 · 2026-08-29 97° 95° 95–97°
14d · 2026-08-30 90° 81° 98° 81–98°
13d · 2026-08-31 97° 98° 86° 96° 86–98°
12d · 2026-09-01 99° 96° 89° 98° 89–99°
11d · 2026-09-02 97° 98° 84° 90° 84–98°
10d · 2026-09-03 101° 97° 89° 100° 89–101°
9d · 2026-09-04 94° 94° 95° 92° 92–95°
8d · 2026-09-05 97° 84° 99° 85° 101° 84–101°
7d · 2026-09-06 96° 96° 95° 95° 101° 95–101°
6d · 2026-09-07 97° 97° 98° 96° 100° 101° 96–101°
5d · 2026-09-08 96° 96° 99° 96° 101° 100° 100° 96–101°
4d · 2026-09-09 95° 96° 100° 96° 101° 101° 100° 95–101°
3d · 2026-09-10 96° 95° 96° 96° 100° 98° 95° 95–100°
2d · 2026-09-11 96° 96° 99° 98° 101° 100° 99° 96–101°
1d · 2026-09-12 96° 97° 95° 98° 100° 99° 99° 95–100°
0d · 2026-09-13 95° 97° 97° 98° 100° 100° 98° 95–100°
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.