Was the forecast right for Oklahoma City on Thu Jul 23?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · daily high temperature · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against ERA5
6 days out, 7 models put Oklahoma City's Thu Jul 23 high anywhere from 85° to 109°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 94°. ERA5 says the day verified at 94° — clear.
ICON landed closest, off by 0.0°.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Thu Jul 23 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 Oklahoma City scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6d · 2026-07-17 | 96° | 86° | 106° | 100° | 109° | 98° | 85° | 85–109° |
| 5d · 2026-07-18 | 95° | 97° | 107° | 102° | 109° | 104° | 98° | 95–109° |
| 4d · 2026-07-19 | 94° | 95° | 103° | 94° | 111° | 101° | 98° | 94–111° |
| 3d · 2026-07-20 | 97° | 93° | 103° | 97° | 101° | 98° | 98° | 93–103° |
| 2d · 2026-07-21 | 96° | 95° | 98° | 96° | 101° | 97° | 97° | 95–101° |
| 1d · 2026-07-22 | 96° | 94° | 97° | 96° | 100° | 96° | 98° | 94–100° |
| 0d · 2026-07-23 | 92° | 94° | 96° | 94° | 94° | 94° | 96° | 92–96° |
| actual | 94° |
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 Oklahoma City — 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.