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Where the weather models disagree in St. Louis

St. Louis, Lambert station · daily high temperature in °F · the next 14 days · using data from 2026-10-18T12:51 UTC

The models are furthest apart on Fri Oct 30, where 4 of them put St. Louis's high anywhere from 49° to 86° — AIFS coldest, GFS hottest. That spread is much greater than typical for forecasts with a 12-day lead at this location.

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The band, day by day

50° 60° 70° 80° Oct 18 Oct 20 Oct 22 Oct 24 Oct 26 Oct 28 Oct 30

The shaded band is the lowest to the highest model high each day; the line is the median model. The band pales as models drop out with lead — 4 to 7 models across these days — so a narrower far end is fewer opinions, not more agreement.

Every day, every model

highs in °F · typical spread is the median spread for that lead over the last month here

How this page is built

The models are the independent global centres Open-Meteo serves for this point — GFS, ECMWF IFS, ICON, GEM, UKMO and the AIFS and AIGFS AI models — as The Spread recorded them at its last sweep. NBM and every other blend are left out: a consensus product hides the disagreement this page exists to show.

Each model publishes to a different horizon, which is why Models is counted per day rather than once. Beyond day 14 only two models remain and both are NOAA's, so the page stops there. Range is the lowest to the highest model high; Spread is the highest model high minus the lowest.

Typical spread is the median spread for that lead over the last month here, and needs ten days of forecasts at that lead before it is shown. It is there because a wide band ten days out is ordinary and the same band tomorrow is not — so nothing on this page is called a divergence; the comparison is against what this lead usually looks like at this location.

GEFS p10–p90 is one centre's ensemble, shown beside the band and never as it: it verifies a few degrees warm at every lead.

Day Models Range Spread Typical spread Coldest Hottest GEFS p10–p90
Sun Oct 18 7 61° to 67° 6° 6° AIFS 61° GFS 67° 63° to 66°
Mon Oct 19 7 66° to 72° 6° 6° ECMWF 66° GFS 72° 68° to 72°
Tue Oct 20 7 67° to 74° 7° 7° UKMO 67° GFS 74° 70° to 75°
Wed Oct 21 7 69° to 76° 7° 8° UKMO 69° GFS 76° 72° to 77°
Thu Oct 22 7 70° to 78° 8° 8° ICON 70° GFS 78° 71° to 79°
Fri Oct 23 7 69° to 79° 10° 9° ICON 69° GFS 79° 69° to 79°
Sat Oct 24 6 70° to 81° 11° 12° ICON 70° GFS 81° 69° to 78°
Sun Oct 25 5 73° to 78° 5° 10° GFS 73° AIFS 78° 65° to 79°
Mon Oct 26 5 71° to 77° 6° 10° GEM 71° ECMWF 77° 67° to 77°
Tue Oct 27 4 74° to 75° 1° 13° ECMWF 74° GFS 75° 57° to 76°
Wed Oct 28 4 66° to 76° 10° 12° AIGFS 66° GFS 76° 53° to 75°
Thu Oct 29 4 59° to 77° 18° 14° AIGFS 59° GFS 77° 51° to 74°
Fri Oct 30 4 49° to 86° 37° 17° AIFS 49° GFS 86° 58° to 73°
Sat Oct 31 4 51° to 72° 21° 14° AIFS 51° GFS 72° 60° to 72°

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