Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Wed Sep 23?
San Antonio, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAT observations
14 days out, 4 models put San Antonio's Wed Sep 23 high anywhere from 84° to 97°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 95°. The day verified at 97° against the SAT observations, with 0.13 in of precipitation — drizzle.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.6°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-08 | — | 82° | — | — | 100° | — | — | 82–100° |
| 14d · 2026-09-09 | 88° | 84° | 92° | — | 97° | — | — | 84–97° |
| 13d · 2026-09-10 | 86° | 90° | 92° | — | 97° | — | — | 86–97° |
| 12d · 2026-09-11 | 94° | 81° | 83° | — | 98° | — | — | 81–98° |
| 11d · 2026-09-12 | 96° | 82° | 88° | — | 93° | — | — | 82–96° |
| 10d · 2026-09-13 | 95° | 94° | 87° | — | 95° | — | — | 87–95° |
| 9d · 2026-09-14 | 89° | 93° | 92° | 93° | 92° | — | — | 89–93° |
| 8d · 2026-09-15 | 95° | 94° | 94° | 96° | 94° | — | — | 94–96° |
| 7d · 2026-09-16 | 92° | 94° | 94° | 95° | 93° | — | — | 92–95° |
| 6d · 2026-09-17 | 93° | 90° | 93° | 96° | 97° | 99° | 94° | 90–99° |
| 5d · 2026-09-18 | 93° | 92° | 94° | 94° | 98° | 100° | 95° | 92–100° |
| 4d · 2026-09-19 | 93° | 93° | 94° | 96° | 95° | 94° | 95° | 93–96° |
| 3d · 2026-09-20 | 94° | 93° | 96° | 96° | 95° | 97° | 95° | 93–97° |
| 2d · 2026-09-21 | 94° | 93° | 96° | 95° | 98° | 96° | 92° | 92–98° |
| 1d · 2026-09-22 | 94° | 93° | 96° | 95° | 96° | 96° | 95° | 93–96° |
| actual | 97° |
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.