Climate twins of Barney, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Barney's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.
Side-by-side: Barney vs its climate twin
Top match: Middle River, MN
| Month | Barney | Middle River | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 19.0°F | -1.3°F | 0.62 in | 15.8°F | -3.2°F | 0.60 in |
| February | 24.0°F | 2.9°F | 0.72 in | 22.3°F | 0.3°F | 0.53 in |
| March | 37.6°F | 16.7°F | 1.00 in | 36.1°F | 15.3°F | 0.75 in |
| April | 54.5°F | 31.4°F | 1.67 in | 52.8°F | 30.5°F | 1.38 in |
| May | 68.7°F | 44.6°F | 2.89 in | 67.1°F | 44.4°F | 3.15 in |
| June | 78.0°F | 55.7°F | 4.52 in | 76.6°F | 55.2°F | 3.92 in |
| July | 82.5°F | 59.7°F | 3.48 in | 80.6°F | 58.7°F | 4.04 in |
| August | 81.4°F | 57.0°F | 2.63 in | 80.1°F | 56.6°F | 3.25 in |
| September | 72.7°F | 47.6°F | 2.56 in | 70.2°F | 48.2°F | 2.70 in |
| October | 56.8°F | 33.9°F | 2.16 in | 54.2°F | 34.4°F | 2.16 in |
| November | 39.1°F | 19.9°F | 0.85 in | 35.8°F | 19.4°F | 1.07 in |
| December | 24.8°F | 6.4°F | 0.89 in | 21.2°F | 4.7°F | 0.85 in |
How this is computed
Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →