Was the forecast right for San Francisco on Thu Sep 3?
San Francisco, California · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SFOC1 observations
12 days out, 4 models put San Francisco's Thu Sep 3 high anywhere from 69° to 78°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 69°. The day verified at 71° against the SFOC1 observations, with 0.03 in of precipitation — drizzle.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.2°. ICON ran 6° cold.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Sep 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12d · 2026-08-22 | 73° | 69° | 78° | — | 70° | — | — | 69–78° |
| 11d · 2026-08-23 | 74° | 74° | 66° | — | 75° | — | — | 66–75° |
| 10d · 2026-08-24 | 67° | 74° | 65° | — | 69° | — | — | 65–74° |
| 9d · 2026-08-25 | 75° | 75° | 69° | — | 75° | — | — | 69–75° |
| 8d · 2026-08-26 | 68° | 80° | 64° | 66° | 77° | — | — | 64–80° |
| 7d · 2026-08-27 | 68° | 79° | 64° | 69° | 72° | — | — | 64–79° |
| 6d · 2026-08-28 | 70° | 71° | 65° | 65° | 70° | 64° | — | 64–71° |
| 5d · 2026-08-29 | 67° | 72° | 69° | 66° | 70° | 66° | 67° | 66–72° |
| 4d · 2026-08-30 | 68° | 72° | 68° | 68° | 71° | 65° | 70° | 65–72° |
| 3d · 2026-08-31 | 66° | 69° | 66° | 67° | 71° | 63° | 68° | 63–71° |
| 2d · 2026-09-01 | 65° | 67° | 68° | 68° | 65° | 64° | 67° | 64–68° |
| 1d · 2026-09-02 | 66° | 67° | 69° | 67° | 68° | 65° | 66° | 65–69° |
| 0d · 2026-09-03 | 68° | 70° | 69° | 68° | 71° | 65° | 70° | 65–71° |
| 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 SFOC1 observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.