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Lowest temperature in Newark on Sep 11, 2026?

Weather · Kalshi · Called YES, verified LOSS · Sep 11, 2026
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Verified Outcome
LOSS
PillarLab called 63° or below to win (YES @ 70%).
Result: 63° or below did not win. The call was wrong.
Analyzed: Sep 11, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC
Market resolved: Sep 12, 2026, 3:14 PM UTC
Called 19h before resolution. The call was made before the outcome was known.

https://kalshi.com/markets/kxlowtewr/newark-nj-ewr-daily-low-temp/kxlowtewr-26sep11

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✅ Got data from Kalshi API!0.6s
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🔍 Step 1: Detecting market type and category...
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✅ Category: 🌦️ WEATHER ✅ Type: MULTI_CANDIDATE 📊 Market: Lowest temperature in Newark on Sep 11, 2026? 📅 Date: 2026-09-12T19:00:00.000Z 💰 Volume: $251 Current Odds: • 63° or below: 70% • 66° to 67°: 39% • 70° to 71°: 27% • 64° to 65°: 6% • 68° to 69°: 2% • 72° or above: 1%1.2s
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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%)7.4s
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📊 Market Summary

🌦️ Lowest temperature in Newark on Sep 11, 2026?

OutcomeCurrent Odds
63° or below70%
66° to 67°39%
70° to 71°27%
64° to 65°6%
68° to 69°2%
72° or above1%

6 options total

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🎯 Best Trade

  • Action: 63° or below — YES @ 70%

  • Confidence: 🔴 LOW · Uncertainty: LOW

  • Why:

  • Newark's Sep 8, 2026 climate report already recorded a 60°F minimum, below the 66–67°F band, showing the station can run cooler than this bucket.
  • September daily lows in Newark decline from 65°F to 55°F across the month, so 66–67°F requires an unusually warm night relative to the trend.
  • The 66–67°F outcome sits above the 62.5°F normal low for Sep 11, making 39% rich unless a specific warm-advection forecast supports it — and none is cited.
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📈 Where the Market Stands

OptionMarketRead
63° or below70%🔴 OVERPRICED
66° to 67°39%🔴 OVERPRICED
70° to 71°27%🔴 OVERPRICED

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 Newark Sep 11 low as clustering in the mid-60s, with the market's 70% on '63° or below' looking like the aggressive tail rather than the central scenario.

📊 2. Ensemble Spread

No GEFS/ECMWF ensemble spread was retrievable for this date, so the market's confident 70% on the coldest bucket rests on a single stale KEWR point forecast (Mon 9/7: low 61°F) rather than a verified ensemble distribution.

⏳ 3. Forecast Skill Decay

This is a same-day/next-day resolution, so skill decay is minimal — the forecast is near-term reliable, which actually argues the market should not be paying 70% for the extreme cold tail.

📈 4. Historical Base Rate

Newark's Sep 11 1991–2020 normal low is 62.5°F and the month's daily lows decline from 65°F to 55°F, so a low at or below 63°F is roughly a coin-flip climatologically, not a 70% base case.

🔀 5. Model Divergence

The outlier scenario that dies is the warm-humid regime: NYC sibling guidance clusters lows at 68–73°F with cloud cover suppressing radiational cooling, which would kill the 63°-or-below bucket entirely.

📍 6. Micro-Climate Bias

Newark Liberty (KEWR) is an urban heat-island airport station, which biases overnight minima warmer than surrounding suburbs and makes the 63°-or-below threshold harder to reach than a rural reading would suggest.

🌀 7. Storm Track

No tropical or severe-weather system is in play for Newark on Sep 11, so there is no track shift that would drive the low down — the cold-tail scenario has no synoptic driver in the data.

💰 8. Market Pricing

LOW - this is a thin, low-volume (251) weather market with no cross-platform comparison available, so the price is soft and the 70% on the cold bucket looks like an unhedged anchor rather than sharp consensus.

⚡ 9. Contrarian Check

The main contrarian risk is that the market has overshot the cold side: after a drier, more seasonable airmass arrived Friday (News 12, Sep 10), the 70% on '63° or below' looks like a stale reaction to the earlier 61°F KEWR reading rather than the current warm-advection pattern.

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