Was the forecast right for Seattle on Wed Oct 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 Wed Oct 14 high anywhere from 56° to 64°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 65°. The day verified at 67° against the SEA observations — drizzle.
GEM landed closest, off by 1.1°. AIGFS ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Oct 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 | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-29 | — | 60° | — | — | 80° | — | — | 60–80° |
| 14d · 2026-09-30 | 63° | 61° | 56° | — | 64° | — | — | 56–64° |
| 13d · 2026-10-01 | 57° | 65° | 52° | — | 54° | — | — | 52–65° |
| 12d · 2026-10-02 | 60° | 58° | 55° | — | 62° | — | — | 55–62° |
| 11d · 2026-10-03 | 62° | 61° | 62° | — | 63° | — | — | 61–63° |
| 10d · 2026-10-04 | 62° | 71° | 54° | — | 66° | — | — | 54–71° |
| 9d · 2026-10-05 | 59° | 66° | 56° | 58° | 65° | — | — | 56–66° |
| 8d · 2026-10-06 | 56° | 57° | 66° | 57° | 60° | — | — | 56–66° |
| 7d · 2026-10-07 | 54° | 51° | 60° | 59° | 55° | 60° | — | 51–60° |
| 6d · 2026-10-08 | 58° | 55° | 59° | 59° | 59° | 61° | 65° | 55–65° |
| 5d · 2026-10-09 | 63° | 55° | 65° | 63° | 60° | 61° | 64° | 55–65° |
| 4d · 2026-10-10 | 63° | 64° | 63° | 63° | 62° | 63° | 65° | 62–65° |
| 3d · 2026-10-11 | 63° | 58° | 62° | 66° | 58° | 64° | 64° | 58–66° |
| 2d · 2026-10-12 | — | 59° | 64° | 66° | 62° | 63° | 64° | 59–66° |
| 1d · 2026-10-13 | 64° | 63° | 66° | 68° | 68° | 65° | 65° | 63–68° |
| 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. 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.