Was the forecast right for San Diego on Sun Oct 18?
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 Sun Oct 18 high anywhere from 30° to 37°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 30°. The day verified at 29° against the SAN observations — clear.
AIFS landed closest, off by 0.0°. ECMWF ran 3° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Oct 18 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 · 2026-10-03 | — | 24° | — | — | 21° | — | — | 21–24° |
| 14d · 2026-10-04 | 30° | 32° | 37° | — | 33° | — | — | 30–37° |
| 13d · 2026-10-05 | 34° | 25° | 33° | — | 34° | — | — | 25–34° |
| 12d · 2026-10-06 | 28° | 31° | 27° | — | 34° | — | — | 27–34° |
| 11d · 2026-10-07 | 28° | 30° | 32° | — | 30° | — | — | 28–32° |
| 10d · 2026-10-08 | 27° | 28° | 36° | — | 28° | — | — | 27–36° |
| 9d · 2026-10-09 | 30° | 28° | 31° | 33° | 25° | — | — | 25–33° |
| 8d · 2026-10-10 | 30° | 36° | 29° | 32° | 32° | — | — | 29–36° |
| 7d · 2026-10-11 | 28° | 31° | 31° | 31° | 29° | — | — | 28–31° |
| 6d · 2026-10-12 | — | 32° | 34° | 32° | 29° | 32° | 31° | 29–34° |
| 5d · 2026-10-13 | 29° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 29° | 31° | 31° | 29–32° |
| 4d · 2026-10-14 | 28° | 32° | 32° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 31° | 28–32° |
| 3d · 2026-10-15 | 28° | 31° | 32° | 29° | 28° | 31° | 32° | 28–32° |
| 2d · 2026-10-16 | 28° | 30° | 32° | 28° | 28° | 30° | 30° | 28–32° |
| 1d · 2026-10-17 | 29° | 30° | 32° | 29° | 28° | 30° | 30° | 28–32° |
| actual | 29° |
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.