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Highest temperature in Newark on Sep 11, 2026?

Weather · Kalshi · Called YES, verified WIN · Sep 11, 2026
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Verified Outcome
WIN
PillarLab called 82° to 83° to win (YES @ 71%).
Result: 82° to 83° won. The call was correct.
Analyzed: Sep 11, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC
Market resolved: Sep 12, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC
Called 15h before resolution. The call was made before the outcome was known.

https://kalshi.com/markets/kxhightewr/newark-nj-ewr-daily-max-temp/kxhightewr-26sep11

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📡 Fetching Kalshi data...
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✅ Got data from Kalshi API!0.3s
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🔍 Step 1: Detecting market type and category...
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✅ Category: 🌦️ WEATHER ✅ Type: MULTI_CANDIDATE 📊 Market: Highest temperature in Newark on Sep 11, 2026? 📅 Date: 2026-09-12T19:00:00.000Z 💰 Volume: $929 Current Odds: • 82° to 83°: 71% • 84° to 85°: 26% • 88° or above: 1% • 86° to 87°: 1% • 80° to 81°: 1% • 79° or below: 1%0.8s
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⏳ Step 2: Gathering intelligence (parallel)...
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✅ Intelligence gathered: Forecast Models (GFS/ECMWF/NWS) · Historical Base Rate (NOAA) · Forecast Uncertainty / Ensemble · Storm Tracking (NHC) · Candidate Dossiers (case for + case against, every candidate ≥2%)10.1s
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🧠 Step 3: Deep Analysing across all 9 pillars — hang tight, ~20s...
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📊 Market Summary

🌦️ Highest temperature in Newark on Sep 11, 2026?

OutcomeCurrent Odds
82° to 83°71%
84° to 85°26%
88° or above1%
86° to 87°1%
80° to 81°1%
79° or below1%

6 options total

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🎯 Best Trade

  • Action: 82° to 83° — YES @ 71%

  • Confidence: 🔴 LOW · Uncertainty: LOW

  • Why:

  • The dominant signal is cooling: a 'passing weather system looks to unlock drier and more seasonable feeling airmass heading into the weekend,' which argues against the top reaching the mid-80s.
  • The only concrete number pointing higher is a single Facebook forecast of 92°F for Newark Sep 11, and the 88°+ bucket is priced at just 1%, implying the market sees the top well below 88°.
  • No hard station observation for Sep 11 appears in the results, so the 26% is a residual probability for a slower/weaker cooldown rather than an evidenced forecast.
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📈 Where the Market Stands

OptionMarketRead
82° to 83°71%⚪ FAIR
84° to 85°26%⚪ FAIR
88° or above1%⚪ FAIR

Verdicts compare my own read against the market price — 🟢 UNDERPRICED (market has it too low) · 🔴 OVERPRICED (market has it too high). The analysis below is the why.

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🔬 9-Pillar Analysis (Meteorological Method)

🌡️ 1. Forecast Consensus

My Vegas Line reads the 82–83° bucket as the clear favorite at 71%, with the 84–85° bucket the only real alternative at 26% — no model output (GFS/ECMWF/NWS) is present in the gathered intelligence to confirm or challenge that split.

📊 2. Ensemble Spread

No GEFS/ensemble spread data exists in the intelligence, so the market's 71/26 concentration cannot be checked against actual model dispersion — a genuine gap in the evidence, not a proven overconfidence.

⏳ 3. Forecast Skill Decay

This is a same-day/next-day market (Sep 11 high, resolved Sep 12) where forecast skill is historically high, so the market's confidence is not a horizon-decay problem.

📈 4. Historical Base Rate

The only date-specific historical reading found is Newark's 93°F on Sep 11, 1961, which sits in the 88°+ bucket — but a single year is not a base rate, and no climatological normal for mid-September Newark appears in the results.

🔀 5. Model Divergence

No competing model scenarios are available to test; the only divergence in the data is a lone Facebook forecast of 92°F against the dominant cooling signal, and that outlier is what the 88°+ bucket at 1% would need to be right.

📍 6. Micro-Climate Bias

KEWR is the official CLIEWR climate site, an airport station with a modest urban-heat-island influence versus downtown Newark — a station-specific factor that can nudge the daily max a degree or two but is not quantified in the intelligence.

🌀 7. Storm Track

Not a tropical or severe-weather contract; no NHC track or cone applies, and no active watches/warnings for Newark appear in the results.

💰 8. Market Pricing

LOW - the market is thin (929 volume) and the gathered intelligence contains no actual Newark Sep 11 high, no model output, and no ensemble spread, so cross-platform or sharp-money confirmation is unavailable.

⚡ 9. Contrarian Check

The main contrarian risk is that the cooling narrative ('drier and more seasonable' airmass) is being over-read: if the passing system is slower or weaker than assumed, the high could land in the 84–85° bucket, which is the only realistic alternative to the priced favorite.

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