Was the forecast right for San Francisco on Sat Aug 1?
San Francisco, California · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
6 days out, 7 models put San Francisco's Sat Aug 1 high anywhere from 68° to 81°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 74°. The day verified at 71° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — partly cloudy.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 1.3°. AIGFS ran 10° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Aug 1 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 Francisco scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6d · 2026-07-26 | 76° | 81° | 70° | 68° | 75° | 70° | 79° | 68–81° |
| 5d · 2026-07-27 | 76° | 78° | 68° | 68° | 71° | 67° | 76° | 67–78° |
| 4d · 2026-07-28 | 78° | 77° | 71° | 68° | 73° | 67° | 80° | 67–80° |
| 3d · 2026-07-29 | 77° | 78° | 70° | 69° | 72° | 68° | 76° | 68–78° |
| 2d · 2026-07-30 | 77° | 78° | 70° | 69° | 73° | 66° | 75° | 66–78° |
| 1d · 2026-07-31 | 76° | 81° | 69° | 68° | 77° | 67° | 74° | 67–81° |
| actual | 71° |
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 Francisco — 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 ECMWF IFS analysis (temperature_2m_max). 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.