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Was the forecast right for Seattle on Mon Sep 14?

Seattle, Washington · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SEA observations

14 days out, 4 models put Seattle's Mon Sep 14 high anywhere from 67° to 74°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 66°. The day verified at 67° against the SEA observations — cloudy.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.7°. AIGFS ran 2° cold.

14 days out the models said 67–74; it hit 67. UKMO led (off 0.7°F); AIGFS ran 2°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Sep 14 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-30 64° 78° 64–78°
14d · 2026-08-31 71° 67° 68° 74° 67–74°
13d · 2026-09-01 70° 75° 65° 83° 65–83°
12d · 2026-09-02 67° 58° 74° 78° 58–78°
11d · 2026-09-03 69° 77° 66° 67° 66–77°
10d · 2026-09-04 68° 73° 60° 71° 60–73°
9d · 2026-09-05 72° 72° 78° 65° 86° 65–86°
8d · 2026-09-06 66° 64° 70° 69° 78° 64–78°
7d · 2026-09-07 66° 60° 67° 65° 77° 60–77°
6d · 2026-09-08 65° 62° 70° 65° 78° 66° 75° 62–78°
5d · 2026-09-09 65° 67° 69° 66° 72° 69° 73° 65–73°
4d · 2026-09-10 65° 66° 66° 66° 69° 68° 71° 65–71°
3d · 2026-09-11 65° 64° 66° 66° 67° 66° 68° 64–68°
2d · 2026-09-12 65° 65° 66° 66° 68° 66° 67° 65–68°
1d · 2026-09-13 65° 65° 66° 68° 68° 65° 68° 65–68°
0d · 2026-09-14 65° 65° 66° 68° 68° 65° 68° 65–68°
actual 67°

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. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.