Was the forecast right for San Francisco on Sat Aug 15?
San Francisco, California · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
14 days out, 4 models put San Francisco's Sat Aug 15 high anywhere from 62° to 72°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 65°. The day verified at 64° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — cloudy.
ECMWF landed closest, off by 0.6°. AIGFS ran 4° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Aug 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-07-31 | — | 70° | — | — | 74° | — | — | 70–74° |
| 14d · 2026-08-01 | 68° | 72° | 62° | — | 66° | — | — | 62–72° |
| 13d · 2026-08-02 | 69° | 72° | 63° | — | 70° | — | — | 63–72° |
| 12d · 2026-08-03 | 68° | 71° | 66° | — | 71° | — | — | 66–71° |
| 11d · 2026-08-04 | 68° | 71° | 67° | — | 74° | — | — | 67–74° |
| 10d · 2026-08-05 | 66° | 65° | 67° | — | 68° | — | — | 65–68° |
| 9d · 2026-08-06 | 67° | 70° | 67° | 67° | 75° | — | — | 67–75° |
| 8d · 2026-08-07 | 67° | 71° | 67° | 67° | 74° | — | — | 67–74° |
| 7d · 2026-08-08 | 68° | 72° | 66° | 67° | 72° | — | — | 66–72° |
| 6d · 2026-08-09 | 68° | 72° | 68° | 66° | 72° | 66° | 63° | 63–72° |
| 5d · 2026-08-10 | 67° | 68° | 69° | 64° | 68° | 66° | 69° | 64–69° |
| 4d · 2026-08-11 | 67° | 68° | 67° | 63° | 67° | 66° | 66° | 63–68° |
| 3d · 2026-08-12 | 67° | 69° | 67° | 64° | 67° | 66° | 67° | 64–69° |
| 2d · 2026-08-13 | 67° | 68° | 65° | 64° | 68° | 65° | 65° | 64–68° |
| 1d · 2026-08-14 | 67° | 68° | 65° | 63° | 63° | 63° | 65° | 63–68° |
| actual | 64° |
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.