Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Skybench puts weather forecasts on the clock
A public benchmark for comparing weather-model temperature forecasts against shared airport observations.
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- Weather-model developers and people comparing forecast accuracy
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- Weekly coverage spans 21 tasks across seven dates, using New York, London, and Tokyo stations with a 12:00 UTC observation time.
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The stated ranking measure is mean absolute error, and the page says entries share the same task set rather than being compared across different coverage. It describes publishing source evidence and hash receipts after each deadline, but also says timestamps are currently held server-side and model identities are self-declared.
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