Was the forecast right for St. Louis on Sat Sep 26?
St. Louis, Missouri · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the STL observations
14 days out, 4 models put St. Louis's Sat Sep 26 high anywhere from 22° to 33°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 21°. The day verified at 21° against the STL observations, with 1.5 mm of precipitation — showers.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.2°. GEM ran 5° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-09-11 | — | 25° | — | — | 29° | — | — | 25–29° |
| 14d · 2026-09-12 | 33° | 22° | 23° | — | 31° | — | — | 22–33° |
| 13d · 2026-09-13 | 32° | 29° | 25° | — | 22° | — | — | 22–32° |
| 12d · 2026-09-14 | 18° | 30° | 28° | — | 29° | — | — | 18–30° |
| 11d · 2026-09-15 | 29° | 33° | 23° | — | 38° | — | — | 23–38° |
| 10d · 2026-09-16 | 20° | 25° | 23° | — | 22° | — | — | 20–25° |
| 9d · 2026-09-17 | 21° | 25° | 19° | 26° | 25° | — | — | 19–26° |
| 8d · 2026-09-18 | 23° | 22° | 20° | 24° | 28° | — | — | 20–28° |
| 7d · 2026-09-19 | 23° | 18° | 23° | 24° | 18° | — | — | 18–24° |
| 6d · 2026-09-20 | 22° | 18° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 24° | 23° | 18–24° |
| 5d · 2026-09-21 | 19° | 20° | 22° | 24° | 26° | 24° | 26° | 19–26° |
| 4d · 2026-09-22 | 21° | 19° | 23° | 24° | 21° | 20° | 24° | 19–24° |
| 3d · 2026-09-23 | 19° | 18° | 22° | 23° | 18° | 18° | 21° | 18–23° |
| 2d · 2026-09-24 | 21° | 20° | 22° | 22° | 23° | 19° | 22° | 19–23° |
| 1d · 2026-09-25 | 22° | 21° | 21° | 26° | 19° | 21° | 21° | 19–26° |
| actual | 21° |
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.