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Was the forecast right for Milan on Thu Aug 27?

Milan, Lombardy · daily high temperature in °F · 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 82° to 90°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 88°. The day verified at 88° against the LIML observations — cloudy.

GFS landed closest, off by 0.5°. GEM ran 4° hot.

5 days out the models said 82–90; it hit 88. GFS led (off 0.5°F); GEM ran 4°F 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 85° 85° 85° 87° 90° 82° 82° 82–90°
4d · 2026-08-23 85° 87° 84° 91° 88° 82° 86° 82–91°
3d · 2026-08-24 86° 88° 85° 91° 89° 88° 88° 85–91°
2d · 2026-08-25 86° 87° 84° 91° 87° 88° 87° 84–91°
1d · 2026-08-26 86° 89° 86° 92° 88° 90° 89° 86–92°
0d · 2026-08-27 85° 88° 86° 92° 88° 90° 90° 85–92°
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.