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Was the forecast right for Milan on Thu Aug 27?

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

5 days out, 7 models put Milan's Thu Aug 27 high anywhere from 28° to 32°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 31° against the LIML observations — cloudy.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.3°. GEM ran 2° hot.

5 days out the models said 28–32; it hit 31. GFS led (off 0.3°C); GEM ran 2°C hot.
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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 Milan scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
5d · 2026-08-22 30° 30° 29° 31° 32° 28° 28° 28–32°
4d · 2026-08-23 30° 31° 29° 33° 31° 28° 30° 28–33°
3d · 2026-08-24 30° 31° 29° 33° 32° 31° 31° 29–33°
2d · 2026-08-25 30° 31° 29° 33° 31° 31° 31° 29–33°
1d · 2026-08-26 30° 32° 30° 33° 31° 32° 32° 30–33°
0d · 2026-08-27 30° 31° 30° 33° 31° 32° 32° 30–33°
actual 31°

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.