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Was the forecast right for New York on Mon Aug 10?

New York, New York · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against ERA5

13 days out, 4 models put New York's Mon Aug 10 high anywhere from 84° to 96°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 90°. ERA5 says the day verified at 91° with 0.14 in of precipitation — rain.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.0°. ECMWF ran 3° hot.

13 days out the models said 84–96; it hit 91. AIGFS led (off 0.0°F); ECMWF ran 3°F hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Aug 10 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 New York scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
14d · 2026-07-27 82° 79° 83° 79–83°
13d · 2026-07-28 84° 88° 85° 96° 84–96°
12d · 2026-07-29 85° 80° 89° 82° 80–89°
11d · 2026-07-30 85° 89° 91° 84° 84–91°
10d · 2026-07-31 89° 83° 86° 90° 83–90°
9d · 2026-08-01 88° 89° 82° 90° 82–90°
8d · 2026-08-02 89° 87° 86° 83° 94° 83–94°
7d · 2026-08-03 90° 92° 89° 88° 94° 88–94°
6d · 2026-08-04 89° 92° 88° 83° 93° 94° 83–94°
5d · 2026-08-05 90° 92° 87° 86° 95° 95° 94° 86–95°
4d · 2026-08-06 90° 88° 91° 83° 85° 89° 91° 83–91°
3d · 2026-08-07 88° 88° 90° 83° 88° 88° 87° 83–90°
2d · 2026-08-08 90° 91° 93° 86° 91° 91° 91° 86–93°
1d · 2026-08-09 89° 92° 93° 90° 94° 91° 94° 89–94°
0d · 2026-08-10 88° 91° 94° 90° 90° 92° 89° 88–94°
actual 91°

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 New York — 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 ERA5 reanalysis (temperature_2m_max). Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.