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Was the forecast right for San Antonio on Mon Aug 31?

San Antonio, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the SAT observations

6 days out, 6 models put San Antonio's Mon Aug 31 high anywhere from 96° to 101°; by the final call the field had settled to a median of 98°. The day verified at 97° against the SAT observations — drizzle.

AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.0°. GFS ran 2° hot.

6 days out the models said 96–101; it hit 97. AIGFS led (off 0.0°F); GFS ran 2°F hot.
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What every model said, at every lead

Daily-high calls for Mon Aug 31 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 San Antonio scoreboard shows them, labelled.

Lead AIFSAIGFSECMWFGEMGFSICONUKMO Range
6d · 2026-08-25 99° 98° 100° 96° 100° 101° 96–101°
5d · 2026-08-26 99° 97° 99° 93° 96° 99° 95° 93–99°
4d · 2026-08-27 98° 97° 100° 96° 101° 100° 97° 96–101°
3d · 2026-08-28 99° 98° 99° 97° 99° 99° 96° 96–99°
2d · 2026-08-29 98° 98° 98° 97° 98° 100° 98° 97–100°
1d · 2026-08-30 97° 97° 99° 96° 98° 99° 96° 96–99°
0d · 2026-08-31 96° 97° 99° 96° 100° 99° 98° 96–100°
actual 97°

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 San Antonio — 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 SAT observations. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.