This page provides an overview of regional forecast skill for the SON 2025 period. A detailed description of outputs automatically updated on this page can be found on the following section's overview.

Regional skill score files

All regional RPSSs are available to download via the following link:

SON 2025 Regional RPSSs (Excel format)

Top 10 teams of regional forecast window 1, period-aggregated, variable-averaged RPSSs

TeamnameTeam_rankModelnameModel_rankGlobalTropicsNHem. ExTro.SHem. ExTro.NHem. PolarSHem. PolarEuropeN. Amer.S. Amer.AfricaAsiaOceania
AIFS1AIFShera10.0870.1080.083-0.0590.0440.0240.092-0.0280.0550.0570.1470.061
AIFS1AIFSgaia30.0810.1330.05-0.080.034-0.0240.091-0.074-0.030.1390.1560.035
AIFS1AIFSthalassa60.0750.1290.037-0.1270.029-0.050.039-0.046-0.1130.1280.1290.061
CMAandFDU2FengshunAdjust20.0850.1710.015-0.0730.005-0.0220.063-0.0240.0950.0540.1130.053
CMAandFDU2FengshunHybrid70.0640.1250.002-0.0470.046-0.0210.037-0.026-0.0640.1070.122-0.023
CMAandFDU2Fengshun100.0350.086-0.006-0.0820.048-0.0410.066-0.041-0.0080.030.0830.104
MicroEnsemble3MicroDuet40.0770.1080.049-0.0220.0320.0650.105-0.002-0.0190.0630.1090.092
MicroEnsemble3StillLearning50.0770.1020.058-0.0090.040.0640.119-0.004-0.0020.0560.1130.082
MicroEnsemble3Huracan90.0470.0440.06-0.0450.020.0690.104-0.005-0.09-0.0150.0990.04
LP4LPM80.0620.0830.061-0.0140.0240.0170.0870.0190.0320.0210.092-0.021
KITKangu5KanguPlusPlus110.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
KITKangu5KanguParametricPrediction110.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
scienceAI5findforecast110.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
scienceAI5zephyr110.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
scienceAI5ngcm110.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
KITKangu5KanguS2SEasyUQ39-1.235-1.34-1.045-1.357-1.094-1.265-1.194-0.876-1.493-1.446-1.178-1.673
CliMA7CliMAWeather16-0.04-0.039-0.052-0.24-0.0370.0630.011-0.087-0.151-0.024-0.019-0.137
CliMA7CliMAWeather217-0.04-0.041-0.049-0.238-0.0390.0680.008-0.086-0.159-0.025-0.017-0.129
WindBorne8WeatherMesh18-0.125-0.082-0.206-0.259-0.153-0.132-0.202-0.187-0.14-0.184-0.141-0.358
FengWuW2S9FengWu219-0.26-0.135-0.434-0.255-0.471-0.25-0.732-0.042-0.124-0.452-0.491-0.126
FengWuW2S9FengWu22-0.33-0.385-0.331-0.388-0.27-0.177-0.462-0.162-0.524-0.629-0.393-0.269
Sibyl10ClimSDE20-0.298-0.344-0.306-0.515-0.19-0.364-0.277-0.186-0.28-0.519-0.315-0.572

Top 10 teams of regional forecast window 2, period-aggregated, variable-averaged RPSSs

TeamnameTeam_rankModelnameModel_rankGlobalTropicsNHem. ExTro.SHem. ExTro.NHem. PolarSHem. PolarEuropeN. Amer.S. Amer.AfricaAsiaOceania
CMAandFDU1FengshunAdjust10.0610.1170.0290.0020.033-0.0140.0030.0580.1330.110.0720.129
CMAandFDU1FengshunHybrid20.0530.080.0320.0280.0250.020.010.0270.060.0650.0770.047
CMAandFDU1Fengshun14-0.0020.0010.0060.0290.053-0.080.006-0.0240.007-0.0770.0420.078
MicroEnsemble2StillLearning30.0510.0990.0060.0390.045-0.022-0.0190.0190.0950.0830.0550.094
MicroEnsemble2MicroDuet40.0450.0870.00.0470.042-0.013-0.0260.0460.1140.0170.0440.103
MicroEnsemble2Huracan80.0090.021-0.0170.0530.032-0.044-0.0470.0320.048-0.060.0010.059
LP3LPM50.0360.0560.0260.0440.022-0.059-0.0020.0360.0770.0240.0660.006
AIFS4AIFSgaia60.0240.04-0.0130.0320.0290.029-0.017-0.0510.1180.0090.0330.009
AIFS4AIFShera70.0090.014-0.020.0050.045-0.0150.009-0.0830.0780.0070.0190.061
AIFS4AIFSthalassa15-0.005-0.0280.0-0.0070.0210.0260.013-0.0460.04-0.080.03-0.117
KITKangu5KanguPlusPlus90.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
KITKangu5KanguParametricPrediction90.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
scienceAI5findforecast90.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
scienceAI5zephyr90.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
scienceAI5ngcm90.0-0.0-0.0-0.00.00.00.00.0-0.0-0.00.0-0.0
KITKangu5KanguS2SEasyUQ39-1.39-1.441-1.309-0.861-1.343-1.442-1.219-1.261-1.532-1.509-1.364-1.174
CliMA7CliMAWeather16-0.1-0.138-0.114-0.127-0.0310.024-0.122-0.12-0.117-0.269-0.1030.089
CliMA7CliMAWeather217-0.106-0.142-0.123-0.138-0.0370.02-0.134-0.133-0.13-0.278-0.1020.09
FengWuW2S8FengWu218-0.264-0.203-0.4570.008-0.308-0.054-0.301-0.058-0.098-0.276-0.616-0.282
FengWuW2S8FengWu20-0.35-0.476-0.363-0.106-0.2050.007-0.271-0.139-0.587-0.678-0.472-0.333
NordicS2S9NordicS2S119-0.315-0.342-0.24-0.25-0.161-0.439-0.153-0.165-0.283-0.584-0.259-0.272
NordicS2S9NordicS2S327-0.527-0.778-0.28-0.111-0.328-0.427-0.321-0.477-0.704-0.923-0.413-0.589
NordicS2S9NordicS2S229-0.606-0.731-0.654-0.764-0.222-0.092-0.37-0.669-0.78-0.854-0.503-0.553
Sibyl10ClimSDE21-0.386-0.392-0.319-0.779-0.261-0.506-0.276-0.345-0.634-0.409-0.22-0.299