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Was the forecast right for Dallas on Sun Aug 30?

Dallas, Texas · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DAL observations

9 days out, 4 models put Dallas's Sun Aug 30 high anywhere from 37° to 41°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 38°. The day verified at 38° against the DAL observations — partly cloudy.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.1°. GFS ran 1° hot.

9 days out the models said 37–41; it hit 38. AIGFS led (off 0.1°C); GFS ran 1°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Sun Aug 30 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
9d · 2026-08-21 37° 38° 39° — 41° — — 37–41°
8d · 2026-08-22 36° 37° 40° 37° 37° — — 36–40°
7d · 2026-08-23 37° 38° 38° 39° 41° — — 37–41°
6d · 2026-08-24 37° 38° 38° 36° 39° 38° — 36–39°
5d · 2026-08-25 38° 38° 39° 37° 41° 39° 39° 37–41°
4d · 2026-08-26 38° 37° 39° 35° 39° 38° 38° 35–39°
3d · 2026-08-27 38° 38° 39° 38° 40° 37° 39° 37–40°
2d · 2026-08-28 38° 39° 39° 37° 40° 39° 37° 37–40°
1d · 2026-08-29 38° 38° 39° 38° 40° 38° 38° 38–40°
0d · 2026-08-30 38° 38° 39° 38° 40° 38° 38° 38–40°
actual 38°

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 the DAL observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.