Was the forecast right for Tampa on Fri Aug 28?
Tampa, Florida · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the TPA observations
3 days out, 7 models put Tampa's Fri Aug 28 high anywhere from 85° to 95°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 90°. The day verified at 89° against the TPA observations, with 1.83 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.
UKMO landed closest, off by 0.1°. GFS ran 5° warm.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Fri Aug 28 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 Tampa scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3d · 2026-08-25 | 85° | 91° | 85° | 93° | 95° | 90° | 90° | 85–95° |
| 2d · 2026-08-26 | 86° | 91° | 85° | 95° | 96° | 90° | 90° | 85–96° |
| 1d · 2026-08-27 | 86° | 90° | 88° | 91° | 94° | 90° | 89° | 86–94° |
| actual | 89° |
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 Tampa — 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 TPA 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.