Was the forecast right for San Diego on Wed Sep 2?
San Diego, California · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAN observations
8 days out, 5 models put San Diego's Wed Sep 2 high anywhere from 80° to 88°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 80°. The day verified at 76° against the SAN observations — clear.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.7°. ECMWF ran 8° hot.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 2 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 Diego scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8d · 2026-08-25 | 85° | 80° | 88° | 83° | 84° | — | — | 80–88° |
| 7d · 2026-08-26 | 84° | 81° | 87° | 84° | 82° | — | — | 81–87° |
| 6d · 2026-08-27 | 84° | 87° | 91° | 87° | 75° | 82° | — | 75–91° |
| 5d · 2026-08-28 | 86° | 85° | 93° | 83° | 83° | 79° | 81° | 79–93° |
| 4d · 2026-08-29 | 85° | 85° | 92° | 83° | 82° | 82° | 79° | 79–92° |
| 3d · 2026-08-30 | 82° | 85° | 90° | 79° | 82° | 82° | 81° | 79–90° |
| 2d · 2026-08-31 | 81° | 80° | 88° | 80° | 78° | 81° | 80° | 78–88° |
| 1d · 2026-09-01 | 80° | 80° | 84° | 79° | 78° | 80° | 82° | 78–84° |
| 0d · 2026-09-02 | 80° | 80° | 84° | 78° | 77° | 77° | 82° | 77–84° |
| actual | 76° |
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 Diego — 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 SAN observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.