SCIENCE · Settled
Will the highest temperature in Singapore be 34°C on September 6?
The answer: NO
The panel of 16 models averaged 20% YES; 16 of 16 were on the right side. The crowd price when the panel was sealed: 10%.
THE BRIEF, WRITTEN AFTER THE OUTCOME
Panel leaned toward YES more than the crowd, but NO occurred; best call was very low YES odds
The highest temperature did not reach 34°C, outcome NO. The panel of 16 models averaged 20% for YES, above the crowd at 10% (Polymarket frozen price). GPT-5 Mini made the best call with 4% for YES, closely matching the NO outcome. Models that missed most assigned much higher YES probabilities, up to 38% from Mistral Large.
- Outcome: NO, highest temperature not 34°C on 2026-09-06.
- The crowd (Polymarket price frozen) was 10% for YES.
- Panel mean was 20%, median 18%, 16 models all called it.
- Lowest model YES probability was 4% (GPT-5 Mini), highest was 38% (Mistral Large).
- Best Brier score was 0.002 from GPT-5 Mini; worst listed Brier was 0.144 from Mistral Large.
EVERY FORECAST, HIGHEST FIRST
- Mistral Large38%
- Perplexity Sonar36%
- Claude Sonnet 4.528%
- Llama 4 Maverick27%
- Perplexity Sonar Pro26%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro19%
- Claude Opus 4.118%
- DeepSeek V318%
- GPT-518%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro + web search18%
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 + web search17%
- Grok 4.516%
- Qwen3 235B12%
- Kimi K211%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash8%
- GPT-5 Mini4%