Table 2.

Average forecasting performance of each model across North and South regions

Model	Region	MSE	RMSE	MAE
LSTM	North	0.0309	0.1697	0.1046	0.5056
	South	0.0459	0.2073	0.1488	0.4891
BiLSTM	North	0.014	0.1157	0.0696	0.7762
	South	0.0229	0.151	0.1028	0.7454
CNN-LSTM	North	0.0376	0.1937	0.1371	0.3969
	South	0.0620	0.2487	0.1953	0.3096
LSTCNet	North	0.0106	0.099	0.0546	0.8308
	South	0.0191	0.1317	0.0695	0.7869
LSTM-Attn.	North	0.0277	0.1656	0.1415	0.5559
	South	0.0248	0.1576	0.1321	0.6523
Transformer	North	0.0187	0.1336	0.0805	0.7016
	South	0.0221	0.1446	0.1019	0.7797
TCN	North	0.0375	0.1909	0.1343	0.3990
	South	0.0395	0.1944	0.1566	0.5608

Bold values indicate the best performance among all compared models for each region