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Was the forecast right for St. Louis on Thu Sep 10?

St. Louis, Missouri · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the STL observations

13 days out, 4 models put St. Louis's Thu Sep 10 high anywhere from 30° to 32°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 25°. The day verified at 27° against the STL observations, with 3.8 mm of precipitation — thunderstorms.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.2°. AIGFS ran 3° cold.

13 days out the models said 30–32; it hit 27. GEM led (off 0.2°C); AIGFS ran 3°C cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Thu Sep 10 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 AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
15d · 2026-08-26 27° 25° 25–27°
14d · 2026-08-27 21° 30° 31° 21–31°
13d · 2026-08-28 32° 31° 30° 30° 30–32°
12d · 2026-08-29 32° 32° 34° 30° 30–34°
11d · 2026-08-30 28° 35° 26° 37° 26–37°
10d · 2026-08-31 33° 32° 29° 37° 29–37°
9d · 2026-09-01 35° 38° 38° 37° 35–38°
8d · 2026-09-02 35° 35° 28° 36° 34° 28–36°
7d · 2026-09-03 31° 37° 36° 35° 39° 31–39°
6d · 2026-09-04 28° 30° 32° 35° 44° 28–44°
5d · 2026-09-05 26° 23° 31° 25° 28° 28° 27° 23–31°
4d · 2026-09-06 27° 26° 28° 28° 28° 28° 28° 26–28°
3d · 2026-09-07 26° 28° 28° 25° 29° 26° 30° 25–30°
2d · 2026-09-08 24° 23° 27° 25° 24° 26° 29° 23–29°
1d · 2026-09-09 25° 24° 26° 27° 26° 25° 27° 24–27°
0d · 2026-09-10 25° 24° 25° 27° 25° 26° 25° 24–27°
actual 27°

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