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The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.

3040404040404050505050505050505050505060606060606060606070707070707070707070708080808080808080808058°Oklahoma City: 58 °F at 00Z 16 Oct57°Salt Lake City: 57 °F at 00Z 16 Oct68°Seattle: 68 °F at 00Z 16 Oct80°Orlando: 80 °F at 00Z 16 Oct57°New York: 57 °F at 00Z 16 Oct90°Los Angeles: 90 °F at 00Z 16 Oct63°Chicago: 63 °F at 00Z 16 Oct82°Houston: 82 °F at 00Z 16 Oct86°Phoenix: 86 °F at 00Z 16 Oct82°Dallas: 82 °F at 00Z 16 Oct77°Atlanta: 77 °F at 00Z 16 Oct53°Boston: 53 °F at 00Z 16 Oct62°Washington: 62 °F at 00Z 16 Oct53°Denver: 53 °F at 00Z 16 Oct48°Minneapolis: 48 °F at 00Z 16 Oct83°Miami: 83 °F at 00Z 16 Oct76°San Francisco: 76 °F at 00Z 16 Oct78°New Orleans: 78 °F at 00Z 16 Oct53°Buffalo: 53 °F at 00Z 16 Oct75°Charlotte: 75 °F at 00Z 16 Oct62°Philadelphia: 62 °F at 00Z 16 Oct59°Detroit: 59 °F at 00Z 16 Oct84°Tampa: 84 °F at 00Z 16 Oct82°San Diego: 82 °F at 00Z 16 Oct73°St. Louis: 73 °F at 00Z 16 Oct85°San Antonio: 85 °F at 00Z 16 Oct

GEM · Run 00Z 16 Oct · +0 h · Valid Fri 00Z 16 Oct

GEM · Run 00Z 16 Oct · +0 h · Valid Fri 00Z 16 Oct

One GEM run — issued 00Z 16 Oct — 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. 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.