Was the forecast right for Seattle on Wed Sep 2?
Seattle, Washington · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SEA observations
10 days out, 4 models put Seattle's Wed Sep 2 high anywhere from 18° to 20°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 19°. The day verified at 21° against the SEA observations, with 5.8 mm of precipitation — rain.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.7°. AIFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10d · 2026-08-23 | 18° | 18° | 19° | — | 20° | — | — | 18–20° |
| 9d · 2026-08-24 | 19° | 17° | 19° | 18° | 25° | — | — | 17–25° |
| 8d · 2026-08-25 | 18° | 15° | 19° | 15° | 14° | — | — | 14–19° |
| 7d · 2026-08-26 | 17° | 14° | 17° | 20° | 17° | 16° | — | 14–20° |
| 6d · 2026-08-27 | 16° | 15° | 19° | 18° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 15–19° |
| 5d · 2026-08-28 | 16° | 17° | 21° | 16° | 19° | 18° | 17° | 16–21° |
| 4d · 2026-08-29 | 16° | 20° | 21° | 19° | 22° | 17° | 17° | 16–22° |
| 3d · 2026-08-30 | 17° | 18° | 18° | 19° | 20° | 18° | 17° | 17–20° |
| 2d · 2026-08-31 | 18° | 18° | 18° | 21° | 19° | 21° | 17° | 17–21° |
| 1d · 2026-09-01 | 17° | 18° | 19° | 20° | 20° | 19° | 20° | 17–20° |
| actual | 21° |
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.