The Mercury Cup
A daily temperature-forecasting contest
How the crowd's doing
6.5°
The crowd's typical miss

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What is this?

The Mercury Cup is a friendly daily contest to forecast the weather. Each day you predict tomorrow's high and low for a featured city — when the day is done, we score how close you were. The sharper your forecast, the higher you climb.

How it works
1 · Predict

Enter tomorrow's high and low for this week's city before the daily deadline.

2 · Get scored

Once the real temperatures are in, we measure how close you were — closer is better.

3 · Climb

Earn skill points against the leaderboard, join divisions, and build a streak.

This week's city

Boise, ID · 43.6°N

Boise is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the county seat of Ada County. The population of the city was 235,685 at the 2020 census.

Forecaster's toolkit

This week · actual highs & lows (°F)

HighLow
1007040MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

Today · Boise through the day (°F)

Actual
90705012:00 am4:30 pm

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