Edition 2026-09-25 The Ledger Archive API RSS Weather Trader
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TheForecast Post

A chronicle of American weather and climate  ·  Friday, 25 September 2026

NBG The Ledger MILEPOST 1205

Guidance has run 2.4°F warm at NBG for a month

The mean signed residual across 6,827 pairs is +2.45°F, against -0.03°F averaged over all 80 stations with enough samples to score. A bias is not an error the reader can ignore — it is one they can correct for.

Mean absolute error says how far the forecast lands from the observation; the signed mean says which side it lands on. At NBG over August 26–September 25, 2026, it lands +2.45°F from the report, across 6,827 pairs — the largest standing lean of any of the 80 stations currently carrying enough samples.

ASOS reports at :53 and the forecast is stamped on the hour, so a forecast is paired with the nearest observation within 30 minutes and otherwise left unscored.

The numbers in this piece, with what they are measured against
mean signed residual at NBG
Forecast Network verification ledger
2.45 °F normal -0.0 °F · 1 of 80
August 26–September 25, 2026
Milepost
1205 · laid 2026-09-25T06:25:14Z
Desk
ledger v1
Method
ASOS reports at :53 and the forecast is stamped on the hour, so a forecast is paired with the nearest observation within 30 minutes and otherwise left unscored.
Source
/home/maue/forecastpoints/data/verify/2026-08.ndjson
/home/maue/forecastpoints/data/verify/2026-09.ndjson
Digest
0e5c4357790821241ba2f60dd56fa04acd17244d95e2f012cb23568725c2d9fd
Machine
JSON