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Was the forecast right for Orlando on Tue Aug 25?

Orlando, Florida · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ORL observations

6 days out, 7 models put Orlando's Tue Aug 25 high anywhere from 88° to 94°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 92°. The day verified at 95° against the ORL observations — drizzle.

UKMO landed closest, off by 0.1°. AIFS ran 7° cold.

6 days out the models said 88–94; it hit 95. UKMO led (off 0.1°F); AIFS ran 7°F cold.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Tue Aug 25 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 Orlando scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
6d · 2026-08-19 92° 94° 91° 92° 94° 88° 94° 88–94°
5d · 2026-08-20 91° 92° 91° 90° 96° 97° 91° 90–97°
4d · 2026-08-21 91° 94° 93° 92° 96° 95° 97° 91–97°
3d · 2026-08-22 92° 94° 92° 94° 97° 93° 93° 92–97°
2d · 2026-08-23 90° 93° 91° 92° 98° 94° 93° 90–98°
1d · 2026-08-24 91° 94° 90° 91° 97° 91° 93° 90–97°
0d · 2026-08-25 88° 94° 91° 92° 96° 92° 95° 88–96°
actual 95°

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 Orlando — 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 ORL observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.