Was the forecast right for San Francisco on Mon Sep 7?
San Francisco, California · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SFOC1 observations
14 days out, 4 models put San Francisco's Mon Sep 7 high anywhere from 63° to 74°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 77°. The day verified at 81° against the SFOC1 observations — partly cloudy.
AIGFS landed closest, off by 1.3°. ICON ran 8° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Mon Sep 7 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 · 2026-08-23 | — | 80° | — | — | 84° | — | — | 80–84° |
| 14d · 2026-08-24 | 65° | 74° | 63° | — | 71° | — | — | 63–74° |
| 13d · 2026-08-25 | 65° | 68° | 64° | — | 66° | — | — | 64–68° |
| 12d · 2026-08-26 | 66° | 67° | 64° | — | 70° | — | — | 64–70° |
| 11d · 2026-08-27 | 74° | 67° | 71° | — | 68° | — | — | 67–74° |
| 10d · 2026-08-28 | 72° | 88° | 73° | — | 70° | — | — | 70–88° |
| 9d · 2026-08-29 | 71° | 70° | 76° | 66° | 81° | — | — | 66–81° |
| 8d · 2026-08-30 | 69° | 74° | 70° | 67° | 74° | — | — | 67–74° |
| 7d · 2026-08-31 | 75° | 76° | 66° | 68° | 81° | — | — | 66–81° |
| 6d · 2026-09-01 | 72° | 72° | 71° | 67° | 68° | 63° | 79° | 63–79° |
| 5d · 2026-09-02 | 76° | 75° | 73° | 70° | 72° | 67° | 79° | 67–79° |
| 4d · 2026-09-03 | 77° | 75° | 73° | 73° | 71° | 68° | 80° | 68–80° |
| 3d · 2026-09-04 | 78° | 78° | 74° | 71° | 78° | 70° | 81° | 70–81° |
| 2d · 2026-09-05 | 78° | 79° | 74° | 72° | 78° | 77° | 78° | 72–79° |
| 1d · 2026-09-06 | 77° | 80° | 76° | 74° | 78° | 73° | 78° | 73–80° |
| actual | 81° |
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. 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.