Was the forecast right for St. Louis on Fri Oct 23?
St. Louis, Missouri · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the STL observations
14 days out, 4 models put St. Louis's Fri Oct 23 high anywhere from 61° to 77°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 75°. The day verified at 75° against the STL observations — partly cloudy.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.0°. UKMO ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Oct 23 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 · 2026-10-08 | — | 62° | — | — | 66° | — | — | 62–66° |
| 14d · 2026-10-09 | 77° | 61° | 75° | — | 71° | — | — | 61–77° |
| 13d · 2026-10-10 | 77° | 68° | 74° | — | 68° | — | — | 68–77° |
| 12d · 2026-10-11 | 68° | 67° | 69° | — | 59° | — | — | 59–69° |
| 11d · 2026-10-12 | — | 75° | 76° | — | 74° | — | — | 74–76° |
| 10d · 2026-10-13 | 80° | 72° | 71° | — | 57° | — | — | 57–80° |
| 9d · 2026-10-14 | 80° | 77° | 73° | 75° | 81° | — | — | 73–81° |
| 8d · 2026-10-15 | 78° | 76° | 73° | 78° | 79° | — | — | 73–79° |
| 7d · 2026-10-16 | 77° | 78° | 74° | 70° | 78° | — | — | 70–78° |
| 6d · 2026-10-17 | 74° | 73° | 70° | 71° | 78° | 65° | 66° | 65–78° |
| 5d · 2026-10-18 | 72° | 73° | 70° | 72° | 77° | 69° | 68° | 68–77° |
| 4d · 2026-10-19 | 74° | 75° | 69° | 74° | 78° | 72° | 68° | 68–78° |
| 3d · 2026-10-20 | 74° | 75° | 72° | 73° | 77° | 73° | 71° | 71–77° |
| 2d · 2026-10-21 | 74° | 75° | 72° | 74° | 77° | 74° | 71° | 71–77° |
| 1d · 2026-10-22 | 74° | 75° | 72° | 76° | 77° | 75° | 71° | 71–77° |
| actual | 75° |
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.