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Was the forecast right for Milan on Wed Aug 26?

Milan, Lombardy · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the LIML observations

4 days out, 7 models put Milan's Wed Aug 26 high anywhere from 83° to 87°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 86°. The day verified at 88° against the LIML observations — drizzle.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.2°. ECMWF ran 4° cold.

4 days out the models said 83–87; it hit 88. UKMO led (off 0.2°F); ECMWF ran 4°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Wed Aug 26 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 Milan scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
4d · 2026-08-22 84° 85° 83° 84° 87° 85° 85° 83–87°
3d · 2026-08-23 84° 86° 83° 88° 86° 87° 85° 83–88°
2d · 2026-08-24 84° 85° 83° 88° 87° 87° 85° 83–88°
1d · 2026-08-25 84° 83° 83° 87° 85° 88° 89° 83–89°
0d · 2026-08-26 84° 84° 84° 87° 86° 87° 88° 84–88°
actual 88°

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