Was the forecast right for St. Louis on Wed Sep 2?
St. Louis, Missouri · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the STL observations
8 days out, 5 models put St. Louis's Wed Sep 2 high anywhere from 93° to 103°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 99°. The day verified at 100° against the STL observations — drizzle.
AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.7°. GFS ran 4° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Sep 2 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 St. Louis scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8d · 2026-08-25 | 96° | 99° | 98° | 93° | 103° | — | — | 93–103° |
| 7d · 2026-08-26 | 89° | 98° | 97° | 97° | 109° | — | — | 89–109° |
| 6d · 2026-08-27 | 92° | 96° | 100° | 96° | 105° | 97° | 94° | 92–105° |
| 5d · 2026-08-28 | 97° | 95° | 102° | 98° | 105° | 100° | 95° | 95–105° |
| 4d · 2026-08-29 | 98° | 95° | 100° | 98° | 104° | 100° | 96° | 95–104° |
| 3d · 2026-08-30 | 98° | 96° | 99° | 99° | 103° | 100° | 96° | 96–103° |
| 2d · 2026-08-31 | 99° | 98° | 99° | 98° | 103° | 99° | 96° | 96–103° |
| 1d · 2026-09-01 | 99° | 99° | 98° | 102° | 104° | 98° | 98° | 98–104° |
| actual | 100° |
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 St. Louis — 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 STL 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.