Was the forecast right for Seattle on Thu Sep 10?
Seattle, Washington · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SEA observations
14 days out, 4 models put Seattle's Thu Sep 10 high anywhere from 19° to 30°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 20°. The day verified at 22° against the SEA observations — cloudy.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.4°. AIFS ran 2° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Sep 10 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, labeled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-08-26 | — | 29° | — | — | 30° | — | — | 29–30° |
| 14d · 2026-08-27 | 20° | 19° | 22° | — | 30° | — | — | 19–30° |
| 13d · 2026-08-28 | 18° | 18° | 19° | — | 18° | — | — | 18–19° |
| 12d · 2026-08-29 | 18° | 18° | 20° | — | 23° | — | — | 18–23° |
| 11d · 2026-08-30 | 22° | 22° | 21° | — | 27° | — | — | 21–27° |
| 10d · 2026-08-31 | 23° | 27° | 19° | — | 16° | — | — | 16–27° |
| 9d · 2026-09-01 | 18° | 18° | 25° | 24° | 25° | — | — | 18–25° |
| 8d · 2026-09-02 | 18° | 17° | 21° | 18° | 25° | — | — | 17–25° |
| 7d · 2026-09-03 | 23° | 27° | 22° | 23° | 31° | 18° | — | 18–31° |
| 6d · 2026-09-04 | 22° | 25° | 20° | 27° | 19° | 22° | 28° | 19–28° |
| 5d · 2026-09-05 | 20° | 27° | 19° | 21° | 27° | 21° | 26° | 19–27° |
| 4d · 2026-09-06 | 19° | 22° | 19° | 21° | 24° | 21° | 21° | 19–24° |
| 3d · 2026-09-07 | 19° | 20° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 20° | 21° | 18–21° |
| 2d · 2026-09-08 | 19° | 20° | 19° | 21° | 20° | 20° | 21° | 19–21° |
| 1d · 2026-09-09 | 19° | 21° | 20° | 23° | 21° | 20° | 20° | 19–23° |
| actual | 22° |
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 day was verified, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; verified days exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.