Was the forecast right for San Diego on Fri Oct 16?
San Diego, California · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAN observations
14 days out, 4 models put San Diego's Fri Oct 16 high anywhere from 26° to 34°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 34°. The day verified at 36° against the SAN observations — partly cloudy.
AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 16 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 · 2026-10-01 | — | 22° | — | — | 27° | — | — | 22–27° |
| 14d · 2026-10-02 | 26° | 27° | 30° | — | 34° | — | — | 26–34° |
| 13d · 2026-10-03 | 24° | 22° | 26° | — | 27° | — | — | 22–27° |
| 12d · 2026-10-04 | 29° | 22° | 31° | — | 28° | — | — | 22–31° |
| 11d · 2026-10-05 | 34° | 24° | 32° | — | 27° | — | — | 24–34° |
| 10d · 2026-10-06 | 33° | 37° | 27° | — | 29° | — | — | 27–37° |
| 9d · 2026-10-07 | 23° | 28° | 32° | 33° | 28° | — | — | 23–33° |
| 8d · 2026-10-08 | 26° | 25° | 34° | 27° | 29° | — | — | 25–34° |
| 7d · 2026-10-09 | 32° | 25° | 30° | 32° | 32° | — | — | 25–32° |
| 6d · 2026-10-10 | 32° | 35° | 29° | 32° | 34° | 35° | 32° | 29–35° |
| 5d · 2026-10-11 | 30° | 35° | 32° | 32° | 33° | 32° | 31° | 30–35° |
| 4d · 2026-10-12 | — | 35° | 32° | 31° | 32° | 33° | 32° | 31–35° |
| 3d · 2026-10-13 | 32° | 35° | 33° | 33° | 32° | 34° | 33° | 32–35° |
| 2d · 2026-10-14 | 32° | 35° | 33° | 34° | 31° | 34° | 34° | 31–35° |
| 1d · 2026-10-15 | 32° | 35° | 34° | 34° | 33° | 35° | 33° | 32–35° |
| actual | 36° |
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.