Was the forecast right for San Diego on Sun Sep 27?
San Diego, California · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAN observations
14 days out, 4 models put San Diego's Sun Sep 27 high anywhere from 75° to 99°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 82°. The day verified at 80° against the SAN observations, with 0.02 in of precipitation — drizzle.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.5°. AIGFS ran 4° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Sep 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-12 | — | 80° | — | — | 78° | — | — | 78–80° |
| 14d · 2026-09-13 | 96° | 92° | 99° | — | 75° | — | — | 75–99° |
| 13d · 2026-09-14 | 94° | 75° | 91° | — | 71° | — | — | 71–94° |
| 12d · 2026-09-15 | 79° | 86° | 85° | — | 75° | — | — | 75–86° |
| 11d · 2026-09-16 | 78° | 84° | 89° | — | 82° | — | — | 78–89° |
| 10d · 2026-09-17 | 79° | 82° | 81° | — | 81° | — | — | 79–82° |
| 9d · 2026-09-18 | 77° | 92° | 92° | 76° | 90° | — | — | 76–92° |
| 8d · 2026-09-19 | 81° | 79° | 88° | 75° | 78° | — | — | 75–88° |
| 7d · 2026-09-20 | 79° | 82° | 85° | 78° | 82° | — | — | 78–85° |
| 6d · 2026-09-21 | 84° | 78° | 84° | 80° | 80° | 80° | 76° | 76–84° |
| 5d · 2026-09-22 | 80° | 79° | 86° | 81° | 82° | 81° | 76° | 76–86° |
| 4d · 2026-09-23 | 78° | 77° | 88° | 88° | 83° | 83° | 81° | 77–88° |
| 3d · 2026-09-24 | 80° | 82° | 91° | 82° | 80° | 85° | 84° | 80–91° |
| 2d · 2026-09-25 | 81° | 82° | 89° | 81° | 81° | 82° | 84° | 81–89° |
| 1d · 2026-09-26 | 82° | 84° | 82° | 84° | 82° | 80° | 81° | 80–84° |
| actual | 80° |
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. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.