Was the forecast right for Seattle on Fri Oct 9?
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 Oct 9 high anywhere from 61° to 80°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 59°. The day verified at 58° against the SEA observations, with 0.01 in of precipitation — drizzle.
AIFS landed closest, off by 0.0°. GFS ran 6° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 9 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 · 2026-09-24 | — | 78° | — | — | 76° | — | — | 76–78° |
| 14d · 2026-09-25 | 61° | 76° | 65° | — | 80° | — | — | 61–80° |
| 13d · 2026-09-26 | 63° | 62° | 56° | — | 82° | — | — | 56–82° |
| 12d · 2026-09-27 | 65° | 74° | 62° | — | 79° | — | — | 62–79° |
| 11d · 2026-09-28 | 68° | 74° | 68° | — | 75° | — | — | 68–75° |
| 10d · 2026-09-29 | 63° | 67° | 62° | — | 81° | — | — | 62–81° |
| 9d · 2026-09-30 | 60° | 60° | 59° | 69° | 60° | — | — | 59–69° |
| 8d · 2026-10-01 | 60° | 56° | 60° | 64° | 62° | — | — | 56–64° |
| 7d · 2026-10-02 | 62° | 55° | 59° | 66° | 68° | 66° | — | 55–68° |
| 6d · 2026-10-03 | 59° | 58° | 57° | 69° | 59° | 67° | 70° | 57–70° |
| 5d · 2026-10-04 | 62° | 68° | 59° | 67° | 71° | 63° | 67° | 59–71° |
| 4d · 2026-10-05 | 58° | 66° | 62° | 58° | 66° | 64° | 63° | 58–66° |
| 3d · 2026-10-06 | 59° | 59° | 62° | 60° | 61° | 62° | 62° | 59–62° |
| 2d · 2026-10-07 | 59° | 58° | 57° | 63° | 62° | 61° | 64° | 57–64° |
| 1d · 2026-10-08 | 58° | 58° | 59° | 62° | 64° | 58° | 59° | 58–64° |
| actual | 58° |
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.