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TheForecast Post

A chronicle of American weather and climate  ·  Sunday, 18 October 2026

NBG The Ledger MILEPOST 1421

Guidance has run 3.0°F warm at NBG for a month

The mean signed residual across 7,406 pairs is +3.02°F, against +0.01°F averaged over all 81 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 September 18–October 18, 2026, it lands +3.02°F from the report, across 7,406 pairs — the largest standing lean of any of the 81 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
3.02 °F normal 0.0 °F · 1 of 81
September 18–October 18, 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/2026-09.ndjson
/home/maue/forecastpoints/data/verify/2026-10.ndjson
Digest
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Machine
JSON