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Was the forecast right for Miami on Thu Aug 6?

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

10 days out, 4 models put Miami's Thu Aug 6 high anywhere from 30° to 32°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 30°. ERA5 says the day verified at 30° with 8.1 mm of precipitation — rain.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.6°. UKMO ran 2° hot.

10 days out the models said 30–32; it hit 30. GFS led (off 0.6°C); UKMO ran 2°C hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Thu Aug 6 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
10d · 2026-07-27 31° 30° 32° 30° 30–32°
9d · 2026-07-28 28° 32° 28° 32° 28–32°
8d · 2026-07-29 29° 32° 28° 32° 31° 28–32°
7d · 2026-07-30 29° 32° 30° 33° 32° 29–33°
6d · 2026-07-31 29° 31° 29° 32° 32° 28° 28–32°
5d · 2026-08-01 29° 31° 29° 33° 31° 31° 29° 29–33°
4d · 2026-08-02 29° 31° 31° 33° 32° 29° 32° 29–33°
3d · 2026-08-03 29° 31° 29° 32° 31° 29° 33° 29–33°
2d · 2026-08-04 28° 31° 28° 32° 31° 29° 31° 28–32°
1d · 2026-08-05 29° 31° 30° 32° 30° 29° 32° 29–32°
0d · 2026-08-06 28° 31° 29° 32° 30° 29° 32° 28–32°
actual 30°

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.