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Was the forecast right for Dallas on Mon Aug 10?

Dallas, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against ERA5

13 days out, 4 models put Dallas's Mon Aug 10 high anywhere from 90° to 107°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 100°. ERA5 says the day verified at 99° — partly cloudy.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.1°.

13 days out the models said 90–107; it hit 99. GEM led (off 0.1°F).
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Aug 10 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 Dallas scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
14d · 2026-07-27 99° 95° 105° 95–105°
13d · 2026-07-28 90° 101° 102° 107° 90–107°
12d · 2026-07-29 104° 100° 103° 106° 100–106°
11d · 2026-07-30 85° 98° 104° 107° 85–107°
10d · 2026-07-31 99° 102° 102° 106° 99–106°
9d · 2026-08-01 101° 102° 102° 107° 101–107°
8d · 2026-08-02 94° 100° 102° 100° 95° 94–102°
7d · 2026-08-03 100° 100° 100° 101° 101° 100–101°
6d · 2026-08-04 100° 102° 102° 100° 100° 101° 100–102°
5d · 2026-08-05 98° 100° 101° 99° 104° 102° 89° 89–104°
4d · 2026-08-06 99° 100° 99° 99° 104° 101° 94° 94–104°
3d · 2026-08-07 100° 101° 101° 98° 104° 100° 99° 98–104°
2d · 2026-08-08 100° 99° 101° 100° 104° 101° 100° 99–104°
1d · 2026-08-09 99° 97° 101° 97° 100° 100° 100° 97–101°
0d · 2026-08-10 99° 99° 100° 98° 100° 100° 100° 98–100°
actual 99°

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 Dallas — 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 ERA5 reanalysis (temperature_2m_max). Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.