Climate twins of Brooks, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Brooks'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: Brooks vs its climate twin
Top match: Hannaford, ND
| Month | Brooks | Hannaford | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 15.0°F | -2.9°F | 0.60 in | 16.4°F | -3.1°F | 0.47 in |
| February | 19.8°F | 0.2°F | 0.57 in | 21.0°F | 0.6°F | 0.63 in |
| March | 33.7°F | 15.0°F | 0.89 in | 34.3°F | 14.6°F | 0.74 in |
| April | 51.2°F | 30.1°F | 1.32 in | 52.0°F | 29.0°F | 1.19 in |
| May | 65.6°F | 43.1°F | 2.85 in | 66.0°F | 41.3°F | 3.04 in |
| June | 74.6°F | 54.6°F | 4.49 in | 74.7°F | 52.4°F | 3.43 in |
| July | 78.9°F | 58.4°F | 3.58 in | 78.8°F | 56.4°F | 3.75 in |
| August | 78.2°F | 55.8°F | 3.50 in | 78.3°F | 53.3°F | 3.16 in |
| September | 68.9°F | 46.9°F | 2.81 in | 69.2°F | 44.9°F | 2.09 in |
| October | 53.2°F | 33.8°F | 2.09 in | 53.7°F | 31.8°F | 1.98 in |
| November | 35.0°F | 19.3°F | 0.85 in | 35.6°F | 17.0°F | 0.78 in |
| December | 21.3°F | 5.6°F | 0.78 in | 22.2°F | 3.7°F | 0.74 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 →