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Was the forecast right for San Diego on Mon Sep 14?

San Diego, California · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAN observations

13 days out, 4 models put San Diego's Mon Sep 14 high anywhere from 23° to 27°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 26°. The day verified at 24° against the SAN observations — cloudy.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.4°. ECMWF ran 4° hot.

13 days out the models said 23–27; it hit 24. GFS led (off 0.4°C); ECMWF ran 4°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Sep 14 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-30 29° 27° 27–29°
14d · 2026-08-31 24° 28° 24° 24–28°
13d · 2026-09-01 26° 23° 27° 25° 23–27°
12d · 2026-09-02 24° 24° 24° 25° 24–25°
11d · 2026-09-03 33° 31° 31° 24° 24–33°
10d · 2026-09-04 36° 24° 24° 24° 24–36°
9d · 2026-09-05 30° 24° 32° 23° 23–32°
8d · 2026-09-06 32° 23° 27° 28° 25° 23–32°
7d · 2026-09-07 28° 29° 28° 29° 23° 23–29°
6d · 2026-09-08 28° 32° 28° 30° 22° 25° 22–32°
5d · 2026-09-09 28° 28° 27° 26° 23° 25° 26° 23–28°
4d · 2026-09-10 28° 26° 28° 28° 23° 25° 27° 23–28°
3d · 2026-09-11 27° 26° 28° 27° 24° 26° 25° 24–28°
2d · 2026-09-12 27° 26° 29° 26° 24° 26° 25° 24–29°
1d · 2026-09-13 27° 26° 29° 26° 23° 26° 26° 23–29°
0d · 2026-09-14 26° 26° 28° 25° 23° 25° 26° 23–28°
actual 24°

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.