Was the forecast right for Salt Lake City on Sun Jul 26?
Salt Lake City, Utah · daily high temperature · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against ERA5
9 days out, 5 models put Salt Lake City's Sun Jul 26 high anywhere from 85° to 101°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 101°. ERA5 says the day verified at 101° with 0.03 in of precipitation — drizzle.
GEM landed closest, off by 0.2°. GFS ran 3° hot.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sun Jul 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 Salt Lake City scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9d · 2026-07-17 | 85° | 91° | 89° | 94° | 101° | — | — | 85–101° |
| 8d · 2026-07-18 | 94° | 88° | 88° | 97° | 98° | — | — | 88–98° |
| 7d · 2026-07-19 | 100° | 94° | 96° | 98° | 102° | — | — | 94–102° |
| 6d · 2026-07-20 | 99° | 101° | 97° | 100° | 104° | 100° | 96° | 96–104° |
| 5d · 2026-07-21 | 99° | 101° | 102° | 98° | 103° | 103° | 100° | 98–103° |
| 4d · 2026-07-22 | 98° | 102° | 104° | 97° | 106° | 103° | 100° | 97–106° |
| 3d · 2026-07-23 | 99° | 102° | 101° | 101° | 104° | 104° | 100° | 99–104° |
| 2d · 2026-07-24 | 98° | 101° | 102° | 101° | 104° | 103° | 101° | 98–104° |
| 1d · 2026-07-25 | 100° | 100° | 102° | 102° | 104° | 102° | 100° | 100–104° |
| 0d · 2026-07-26 | 101° | 99° | 102° | 102° | 104° | 101° | 101° | 99–104° |
| actual | 101° |
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 Salt Lake 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.