Was the forecast right for Minneapolis on Sun Aug 30?
Minneapolis, Minnesota · daily high temperature in °C · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the MSP observations
7 days out, 5 models put Minneapolis's Sun Aug 30 high anywhere from 23° to 28°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 31°. The day verified at 31° against the MSP observations — thunderstorms.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.1°. GFS ran 7° hot.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Aug 30 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 Minneapolis scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7d · 2026-08-23 | 27° | 27° | 28° | 23° | 27° | — | — | 23–28° |
| 6d · 2026-08-24 | 29° | 29° | 26° | 31° | 31° | 32° | — | 26–32° |
| 5d · 2026-08-25 | 29° | 27° | 31° | 33° | 35° | 30° | 30° | 27–35° |
| 4d · 2026-08-26 | 29° | 31° | 32° | 31° | 36° | 28° | 30° | 28–36° |
| 3d · 2026-08-27 | 29° | 30° | 32° | 32° | 39° | 30° | 30° | 29–39° |
| 2d · 2026-08-28 | 27° | 29° | 31° | 30° | 36° | 29° | 30° | 27–36° |
| 1d · 2026-08-29 | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 35° | 31° | 30° | 28–35° |
| 0d · 2026-08-30 | 28° | 30° | 31° | 33° | 37° | 31° | 32° | 28–37° |
| 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 Minneapolis — 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 MSP observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.