Climate twins of Fife Lake, MI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Fife Lake'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: Fife Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Peshtigo, WI
| Month | Fife Lake | Peshtigo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 25.3°F | 10.0°F | 2.31 in | 25.5°F | 9.2°F | 1.57 in |
| February | 28.3°F | 10.7°F | 1.65 in | 29.1°F | 10.0°F | 1.17 in |
| March | 37.8°F | 16.4°F | 1.93 in | 38.8°F | 19.2°F | 1.85 in |
| April | 51.2°F | 28.7°F | 3.30 in | 51.5°F | 30.2°F | 3.02 in |
| May | 65.2°F | 40.3°F | 3.38 in | 65.1°F | 42.9°F | 3.66 in |
| June | 75.2°F | 50.7°F | 3.20 in | 75.2°F | 52.6°F | 3.84 in |
| July | 79.0°F | 54.8°F | 3.48 in | 80.1°F | 56.9°F | 3.64 in |
| August | 77.3°F | 53.4°F | 3.51 in | 78.2°F | 55.1°F | 3.52 in |
| September | 70.5°F | 46.9°F | 3.34 in | 70.5°F | 48.1°F | 3.46 in |
| October | 56.3°F | 36.2°F | 3.90 in | 57.1°F | 36.8°F | 3.39 in |
| November | 42.3°F | 26.6°F | 2.95 in | 43.0°F | 26.9°F | 2.33 in |
| December | 30.8°F | 17.7°F | 2.33 in | 30.9°F | 16.3°F | 1.92 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 →