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Was the forecast right for San Diego on Sat Sep 19?

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 Sat Sep 19 high anywhere from 26° to 28°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 25°. The day verified at 26° against the SAN observations — cloudy.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.2°. ECMWF ran 3° warm.

13 days out the models said 26–28; it hit 26. ICON led (off 0.2°C); ECMWF ran 3°C warm.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 19 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
14d · 2026-09-05 24° 33° 25° 24–33°
13d · 2026-09-06 28° 26° 28° 28° 26–28°
12d · 2026-09-07 30° 31° 31° 27° 27–31°
11d · 2026-09-08 26° 26° 36° 26° 26–36°
10d · 2026-09-09 26° 23° 27° 26° 23–27°
9d · 2026-09-10 28° 30° 29° 26° 26–30°
8d · 2026-09-11 28° 29° 31° 27° 28° 27–31°
7d · 2026-09-12 26° 28° 30° 28° 27° 26–30°
6d · 2026-09-13 26° 26° 27° 27° 24° 26° 24–27°
5d · 2026-09-14 26° 25° 28° 25° 24° 27° 26° 24–28°
4d · 2026-09-15 25° 25° 28° 25° 24° 26° 27° 24–28°
3d · 2026-09-16 25° 25° 28° 25° 24° 26° 26° 24–28°
2d · 2026-09-17 25° 25° 29° 25° 25° 26° 27° 25–29°
1d · 2026-09-18 25° 24° 29° 25° 25° 26° 28° 24–29°
0d · 2026-09-19 25° 24° 28° 25° 24° 26° 27° 24–28°
actual 26°

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.