Was the forecast right for Seattle on Sun Aug 30?
Seattle, Washington · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SEA observations
7 days out, 6 models put Seattle's Sun Aug 30 high anywhere from 66° to 73°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 69°. The day verified at 71° against the SEA observations — cloudy.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.1°. ECMWF ran 5° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Aug 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7d · 2026-08-23 | 68° | 73° | 70° | 66° | 73° | 70° | — | 66–73° |
| 6d · 2026-08-24 | 71° | 78° | 68° | 67° | 82° | 75° | 73° | 67–82° |
| 5d · 2026-08-25 | 69° | 73° | 70° | 68° | 75° | 71° | 74° | 68–75° |
| 4d · 2026-08-26 | 68° | 68° | 68° | 68° | 66° | 68° | 74° | 66–74° |
| 3d · 2026-08-27 | 68° | 70° | 68° | 67° | 73° | 67° | 71° | 67–73° |
| 2d · 2026-08-28 | 68° | 68° | 67° | 70° | 72° | 67° | 70° | 67–72° |
| 1d · 2026-08-29 | 67° | 69° | 66° | 73° | 74° | 66° | 71° | 66–74° |
| 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 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 SEA 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.