Edition 2026-09-29 The Ledger Archive API RSS Weather Trader
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TheForecast Post

A chronicle of American weather and climate  ·  Tuesday, 29 September 2026

NBG The Ledger MILEPOST 1237

Guidance has run 2.8°F warm at NBG for a month

The mean signed residual across 6,749 pairs is +2.78°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 30–September 29, 2026, it lands +2.78°F from the report, across 6,749 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
2.78 °F normal 0.0 °F · 1 of 80
August 30–September 29, 2026
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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
6208bdaefd8ba65ff76f2df470a2b2c5bc5502dc5f47b493d6b3524b975b2688
Machine
JSON