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GEM · Run 00Z 15 Oct · +0 h · Valid Thu 00Z 15 Oct

Region Southern Plains

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

404040404040405050505050505050505050505050505050606060606060606070707070707070707070707080808080808080808080809072°Oklahoma City: 72 °F at 00Z 15 Oct48°Salt Lake City: 48 °F at 00Z 15 Oct66°Seattle: 66 °F at 00Z 15 Oct78°Orlando: 78 °F at 00Z 15 Oct73°New York: 73 °F at 00Z 15 Oct78°Los Angeles: 78 °F at 00Z 15 Oct59°Chicago: 59 °F at 00Z 15 Oct82°Houston: 82 °F at 00Z 15 Oct75°Phoenix: 75 °F at 00Z 15 Oct86°Dallas: 86 °F at 00Z 15 Oct76°Atlanta: 76 °F at 00Z 15 Oct65°Boston: 65 °F at 00Z 15 Oct79°Washington: 79 °F at 00Z 15 Oct48°Denver: 48 °F at 00Z 15 Oct51°Minneapolis: 51 °F at 00Z 15 Oct83°Miami: 83 °F at 00Z 15 Oct68°San Francisco: 68 °F at 00Z 15 Oct78°New Orleans: 78 °F at 00Z 15 Oct56°Buffalo: 56 °F at 00Z 15 Oct72°Charlotte: 72 °F at 00Z 15 Oct74°Philadelphia: 74 °F at 00Z 15 Oct59°Detroit: 59 °F at 00Z 15 Oct82°Tampa: 82 °F at 00Z 15 Oct74°San Diego: 74 °F at 00Z 15 Oct72°St. Louis: 72 °F at 00Z 15 Oct87°San Antonio: 87 °F at 00Z 15 Oct

GEM · Run 00Z 15 Oct · +0 h · Valid Thu 00Z 15 Oct

One GEM run — issued 00Z 15 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.

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.