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NOAA AIGFS · Run 12Z 14 Oct · +0 h · Valid Wed 12Z 14 Oct

Region Lower 48
3030303040404040404040404040404040404040404050505050505050506060606060606060607070707070707070707070808070°Oklahoma City: 70 °F at 12Z 14 Oct45°Salt Lake City: 45 °F at 12Z 14 Oct57°Seattle: 57 °F at 12Z 14 Oct74°Orlando: 74 °F at 12Z 14 Oct67°New York: 67 °F at 12Z 14 Oct67°Los Angeles: 67 °F at 12Z 14 Oct64°Chicago: 64 °F at 12Z 14 Oct79°Houston: 79 °F at 12Z 14 Oct64°Phoenix: 64 °F at 12Z 14 Oct78°Dallas: 78 °F at 12Z 14 Oct68°Atlanta: 68 °F at 12Z 14 Oct62°Boston: 62 °F at 12Z 14 Oct66°Washington: 66 °F at 12Z 14 Oct47°Denver: 47 °F at 12Z 14 Oct47°Minneapolis: 47 °F at 12Z 14 Oct82°Miami: 82 °F at 12Z 14 Oct58°San Francisco: 58 °F at 12Z 14 Oct71°New Orleans: 71 °F at 12Z 14 Oct59°Buffalo: 59 °F at 12Z 14 Oct63°Charlotte: 63 °F at 12Z 14 Oct66°Philadelphia: 66 °F at 12Z 14 Oct63°Detroit: 63 °F at 12Z 14 Oct75°Tampa: 75 °F at 12Z 14 Oct66°San Diego: 66 °F at 12Z 14 Oct73°St. Louis: 73 °F at 12Z 14 Oct76°San Antonio: 76 °F at 12Z 14 Oct

NOAA AIGFS · Run 12Z 14 Oct · +0 h · Valid Wed 12Z 14 Oct

One NOAA AIGFS run — issued 12Z 14 Oct — played forward 6 hours at a time, from its analysis to 384 hours out.

Methodology

Nights and days pass as you step this run: that motion is the weather the run forecasts, not the forecast changing. Forecast Evolution is the other film — it holds one moment still and steps the runs, so the only thing that moves there is the model's mind. The colour scale is fitted to the whole run at once, so the same moment reads with more bands here than on the static NOAA AIGFS map; the field is identical. Six-hourly to 384 hours. NOAA AIGFS forecasts out to 384 hours. The frames past the one shown load on demand.

This map is drawn from model output we store ourselves, not from anyone's picture of it, and is based on data and products of NOAA. The per-city read of the same day — which cities the models are fighting about, and what the discussion makes of it — is on the national page. Every model's full forecast for any of these cities, or anywhere else, is in the beta: request an invite; it's free during the beta.

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What we change: each field is cropped to the frame these maps share when we download it, and each map then smooths, contours, differences or ranks those numbers as its Methodology says. These are our maps of the providers' numbers, not their products, and none of them has reviewed or endorsed this site.

Coastlines, borders, lakes and place names: Natural Earth, public domain.