Edition 2026-09-30 The Ledger Archive API RSS Weather Trader
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TheForecast Post

A chronicle of American weather and climate  ·  Wednesday, 30 September 2026

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The ledger, through September 30

Mean absolute temperature error runs 2.23°F at day 1 and 3.88°F at day 7, over 514,950 settled forecast-observation pairs.

Every forecast this network publishes for a station with an ASOS report is compared against that report once the valid time has passed, and the residual is written down. This is the standing table for August 31–September 30, 2026.

LeadNDFDNBMpairs
Day 12.292.2370,277
Day 22.522.4470,289
Day 32.782.6670,203
Day 43.022.9170,273
Day 53.343.2170,356
Day 63.683.5670,888
Day 74.043.8857,396
Day 8—4.1835,268

Mean absolute error, °F, temperature. 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
day-1 mean absolute temperature error, NBM
Forecast Network verification ledger
2.23 °F of 34,835
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-3 mean absolute temperature error, NBM
Forecast Network verification ledger
2.66 °F of 34,759
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-5 mean absolute temperature error, NBM
Forecast Network verification ledger
3.21 °F of 34,912
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-7 mean absolute temperature error, NBM
Forecast Network verification ledger
3.88 °F of 35,369
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-1 mean absolute temperature error, NDFD
Forecast Network verification ledger
2.29 °F of 35,442
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-3 mean absolute temperature error, NDFD
Forecast Network verification ledger
2.78 °F of 35,444
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-5 mean absolute temperature error, NDFD
Forecast Network verification ledger
3.34 °F of 35,444
August 31–September 30, 2026
day-7 mean absolute temperature error, NDFD
Forecast Network verification ledger
4.04 °F of 22,027
August 31–September 30, 2026
Milepost
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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
dde3f2cef27ccf1483b0446231a76b9e05e7c85125adf9de75e11484974ee804
Machine
JSON