Was the forecast right for Seattle on Thu Jul 30?
Seattle, Washington · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ECMWF IFS analysis
13 days out, 4 models put Seattle's Thu Jul 30 high anywhere from 21° to 29°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 24°. The day verified at 25° against the ECMWF IFS analysis — cloudy.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIGFS ran 2° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Jul 30 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 Seattle scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13d · 2026-07-17 | 23° | 23° | 21° | — | 29° | — | — | 21–29° |
| 12d · 2026-07-18 | 23° | 26° | 24° | — | 31° | — | — | 23–31° |
| 11d · 2026-07-19 | 24° | 27° | 23° | — | 27° | — | — | 23–27° |
| 10d · 2026-07-20 | 24° | 25° | 27° | — | 26° | — | — | 24–27° |
| 9d · 2026-07-21 | 24° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 28° | — | — | 24–28° |
| 8d · 2026-07-22 | 24° | 25° | 26° | 24° | 30° | — | — | 24–30° |
| 7d · 2026-07-23 | 23° | 25° | 23° | 24° | 26° | 23° | — | 23–26° |
| 6d · 2026-07-24 | 24° | 27° | 24° | 24° | 26° | 24° | 24° | 24–27° |
| 5d · 2026-07-25 | 24° | 26° | 24° | 23° | 29° | 22° | 24° | 22–29° |
| 4d · 2026-07-26 | 23° | 26° | 24° | 23° | 28° | 24° | 26° | 23–28° |
| 3d · 2026-07-27 | 23° | 26° | 24° | 22° | 27° | 24° | 23° | 22–27° |
| 2d · 2026-07-28 | 23° | 27° | 24° | 23° | 27° | 23° | 24° | 23–27° |
| 1d · 2026-07-29 | 23° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23–26° |
| actual | 25° |
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 Seattle — 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.