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Was the forecast right for Miami on Thu Aug 27?

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

5 days out, 7 models put Miami's Thu Aug 27 high anywhere from 86° to 93°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 91°. The day verified at 93° against the MIA observations, with 0.01 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.4°. AIFS ran 5° cold.

5 days out the models said 86–93; it hit 93. GFS led (off 0.4°F); AIFS ran 5°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Thu Aug 27 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
5d · 2026-08-22 86° 92° 86° 92° 93° 88° 93° 86–93°
4d · 2026-08-23 86° 92° 86° 91° 93° 89° 93° 86–93°
3d · 2026-08-24 87° 92° 86° 91° 93° 87° 90° 86–93°
2d · 2026-08-25 86° 92° 84° 91° 94° 88° 91° 84–94°
1d · 2026-08-26 86° 91° 87° 92° 93° 89° 90° 86–93°
0d · 2026-08-27 88° 91° 90° 92° 93° 90° 94° 88–94°
actual 93°

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