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Was the forecast right for Miami on Tue Aug 11?

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

13 days out, 4 models put Miami's Tue Aug 11 high anywhere from 89° to 91°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 91°. ERA5 says the day verified at 91° with 0.02 in of precipitation — drizzle.

GEM landed closest, off by 0.5°. AIFS ran 2° cold.

13 days out the models said 89–91; it hit 91. GEM led (off 0.5°F); AIFS ran 2°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Aug 11 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
15d · 2026-07-27 88° 89° 88–89°
14d · 2026-07-28 88° 92° 87° 87–92°
13d · 2026-07-29 89° 91° 90° 89° 89–91°
12d · 2026-07-30 87° 90° 91° 90° 87–91°
11d · 2026-07-31 89° 91° 86° 90° 86–91°
10d · 2026-08-01 89° 91° 91° 88° 88–91°
9d · 2026-08-02 88° 92° 87° 90° 87–92°
8d · 2026-08-03 89° 92° 88° 91° 89° 88–92°
7d · 2026-08-04 89° 94° 88° 92° 88° 88–94°
6d · 2026-08-05 89° 93° 89° 92° 88° 90° 88–93°
5d · 2026-08-06 89° 93° 89° 92° 88° 90° 91° 88–93°
4d · 2026-08-07 89° 93° 90° 91° 88° 90° 92° 88–93°
3d · 2026-08-08 89° 94° 88° 92° 89° 90° 92° 88–94°
2d · 2026-08-09 89° 93° 89° 90° 89° 91° 92° 89–93°
1d · 2026-08-10 89° 92° 89° 90° 90° 91° 92° 89–92°
0d · 2026-08-11 89° 92° 90° 91° 90° 91° 93° 89–93°
actual 91°

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.