Was the forecast right for Seattle on Fri Sep 25?
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 Fri Sep 25 high anywhere from 58° to 70°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 59°. The day verified at 62° against the SEA observations, with 0.21 in of precipitation — showers.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.9°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Sep 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-10 | — | 62° | — | — | 68° | — | — | 62–68° |
| 14d · 2026-09-11 | 64° | 58° | 70° | — | 64° | — | — | 58–70° |
| 13d · 2026-09-12 | 58° | 68° | 71° | — | 68° | — | — | 58–71° |
| 12d · 2026-09-13 | 62° | 62° | 66° | — | 85° | — | — | 62–85° |
| 11d · 2026-09-14 | 69° | 61° | 69° | — | 67° | — | — | 61–69° |
| 10d · 2026-09-15 | 59° | 62° | 66° | — | 84° | — | — | 59–84° |
| 9d · 2026-09-16 | 69° | 66° | 66° | 65° | 63° | — | — | 63–69° |
| 8d · 2026-09-17 | 63° | 62° | 61° | 72° | 64° | — | — | 61–72° |
| 7d · 2026-09-18 | 64° | 65° | 63° | 60° | 66° | 64° | — | 60–66° |
| 6d · 2026-09-19 | 62° | 56° | 61° | 61° | 59° | 59° | 64° | 56–64° |
| 5d · 2026-09-20 | 55° | 59° | 56° | 63° | 66° | 63° | 63° | 55–66° |
| 4d · 2026-09-21 | 57° | 53° | 55° | 59° | 62° | 60° | 57° | 53–62° |
| 3d · 2026-09-22 | 58° | 59° | 54° | 62° | 59° | 65° | 60° | 54–65° |
| 2d · 2026-09-23 | 58° | 58° | 62° | 59° | 56° | 61° | 62° | 56–62° |
| 1d · 2026-09-24 | 59° | 58° | 58° | 59° | 61° | 61° | 61° | 58–61° |
| actual | 62° |
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.