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GEM · Run 12Z 30 Sep · +0 h · Valid Wed 12Z 30 Sep

30304040404040505050505050505050505050505050506060606060606060606060606060606060707070707070707070808080808080808078°Oklahoma City: 78 °F at 12Z 30 Sep50°Salt Lake City: 50 °F at 12Z 30 Sep49°Seattle: 49 °F at 12Z 30 Sep71°Orlando: 71 °F at 12Z 30 Sep61°New York: 61 °F at 12Z 30 Sep62°Los Angeles: 62 °F at 12Z 30 Sep63°Chicago: 63 °F at 12Z 30 Sep78°Houston: 78 °F at 12Z 30 Sep64°Phoenix: 64 °F at 12Z 30 Sep78°Dallas: 78 °F at 12Z 30 Sep57°Atlanta: 57 °F at 12Z 30 Sep60°Boston: 60 °F at 12Z 30 Sep59°Washington: 59 °F at 12Z 30 Sep54°Denver: 54 °F at 12Z 30 Sep64°Minneapolis: 64 °F at 12Z 30 Sep79°Miami: 79 °F at 12Z 30 Sep59°San Francisco: 59 °F at 12Z 30 Sep77°New Orleans: 77 °F at 12Z 30 Sep58°Buffalo: 58 °F at 12Z 30 Sep57°Charlotte: 57 °F at 12Z 30 Sep62°Philadelphia: 62 °F at 12Z 30 Sep56°Detroit: 56 °F at 12Z 30 Sep74°Tampa: 74 °F at 12Z 30 Sep67°San Diego: 67 °F at 12Z 30 Sep66°St. Louis: 66 °F at 12Z 30 Sep78°San Antonio: 78 °F at 12Z 30 Sep

GEM · Run 12Z 30 Sep · +0 h · Valid Wed 12Z 30 Sep

One GEM run — issued 12Z 30 Sep — played forward 6 hours at a time, from its analysis to 120 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 GEM map; the field is identical. Six-hourly to 120 hours. GEM forecasts out to 240 hours; this film stops at 120. 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 Environment and Climate Change Canada. 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.

Sources and licences

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.