Climate twins of Estherwood, LA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Estherwood'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: Estherwood vs its climate twin
Top match: Picayune, MS
| Month | Estherwood | Picayune | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 60.6°F | 41.6°F | 6.40 in | 61.9°F | 37.8°F | 6.39 in |
| February | 64.4°F | 45.2°F | 4.26 in | 65.7°F | 40.6°F | 4.87 in |
| March | 71.2°F | 52.0°F | 3.84 in | 71.9°F | 47.0°F | 5.21 in |
| April | 77.5°F | 58.8°F | 5.34 in | 78.2°F | 53.3°F | 5.90 in |
| May | 84.3°F | 67.0°F | 5.58 in | 84.8°F | 60.9°F | 5.02 in |
| June | 89.2°F | 72.5°F | 6.68 in | 89.2°F | 68.0°F | 6.55 in |
| July | 90.7°F | 74.1°F | 5.77 in | 91.5°F | 70.5°F | 6.46 in |
| August | 91.5°F | 73.5°F | 6.21 in | 91.4°F | 70.6°F | 6.38 in |
| September | 88.1°F | 69.2°F | 4.95 in | 87.7°F | 66.2°F | 4.86 in |
| October | 80.7°F | 59.1°F | 4.69 in | 80.5°F | 55.2°F | 5.04 in |
| November | 70.4°F | 49.3°F | 5.04 in | 70.9°F | 44.6°F | 4.31 in |
| December | 62.9°F | 43.7°F | 4.77 in | 64.8°F | 40.0°F | 5.73 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 →