Was the forecast right for Orlando on Wed Aug 26?
Orlando, Florida · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the ORL observations
7 days out, 5 models put Orlando's Wed Aug 26 high anywhere from 90° to 95°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 92°. The day verified at 96° against the ORL observations, with 1.21 in of precipitation — thunderstorms.
GFS landed closest, off by 1.4°. ECMWF ran 8° cold.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Aug 26 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 | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7d · 2026-08-19 | 91° | 94° | 90° | 91° | 95° | — | — | 90–95° |
| 6d · 2026-08-20 | 90° | 92° | 92° | 93° | 97° | 94° | 92° | 90–97° |
| 5d · 2026-08-21 | 89° | 92° | 92° | 94° | 97° | 92° | 90° | 89–97° |
| 4d · 2026-08-22 | 90° | 93° | 92° | 94° | 99° | 90° | 91° | 90–99° |
| 3d · 2026-08-23 | 89° | 93° | 91° | 95° | 98° | 92° | 96° | 89–98° |
| 2d · 2026-08-24 | 89° | 94° | 90° | 92° | 97° | 90° | 94° | 89–97° |
| 1d · 2026-08-25 | 89° | 95° | 90° | 96° | 98° | 90° | 91° | 89–98° |
| 0d · 2026-08-26 | 90° | 94° | 88° | 93° | 97° | 91° | 92° | 88–97° |
| actual | 96° |
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.