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Was the forecast right for Miami on Mon Aug 3?

Miami, Florida · daily high temperature · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against ERA5

7 days out, 5 models put Miami's Mon Aug 3 high anywhere from 87° to 92°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 89°. ERA5 says the day verified at 89° with 1.74 in of precipitation — rain.

ICON landed closest, off by 0.0°. GFS ran 3° cold.

7 days out the models said 87–92; it hit 89. ICON led (off 0.0°); GFS ran 3° cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Aug 3 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 Miami scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
7d · 2026-07-27 87° 89° 90° 92° 89° 87–92°
6d · 2026-07-28 86° 92° 85° 93° 90° 91° 85–93°
5d · 2026-07-29 87° 91° 90° 92° 89° 91° 90° 87–92°
4d · 2026-07-30 86° 92° 86° 92° 90° 89° 89° 86–92°
3d · 2026-07-31 86° 92° 88° 91° 90° 89° 91° 86–92°
2d · 2026-08-01 85° 89° 89° 91° 89° 88° 91° 85–91°
1d · 2026-08-02 87° 91° 89° 91° 86° 87° 94° 86–94°
0d · 2026-08-03 88° 90° 88° 90° 86° 89° 91° 86–91°
actual 89°

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 Miami — 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.