Climate twins of Flasher, ND

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Flasher'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: Flasher vs its climate twin

Top match: Long Lake, SD

Month	Flasher			Long Lake
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	23.5°F	3.2°F	0.55 in	20.8°F	3.5°F	0.50 in
February	28.1°F	7.3°F	0.65 in	24.3°F	6.5°F	0.52 in
March	40.2°F	18.0°F	0.88 in	37.8°F	17.8°F	1.40 in
April	55.5°F	29.8°F	1.30 in	53.4°F	30.8°F	1.65 in
May	67.5°F	42.0°F	2.52 in	66.2°F	42.7°F	2.92 in
June	76.8°F	52.4°F	3.04 in	74.6°F	53.3°F	3.30 in
July	84.1°F	57.4°F	3.01 in	80.8°F	58.3°F	2.96 in
August	83.2°F	55.3°F	2.22 in	79.4°F	56.3°F	2.06 in
September	73.2°F	45.3°F	1.64 in	71.0°F	47.1°F	2.00 in
October	57.1°F	31.6°F	1.32 in	54.9°F	33.3°F	1.57 in
November	40.6°F	18.7°F	0.66 in	38.5°F	20.2°F	0.45 in
December	28.3°F	8.2°F	0.67 in	25.3°F	9.2°F	0.55 in

Cities that consider Flasher their climate twin

These US cities have Flasher in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Flasher would feel familiar.

Ipswich, SD (ranks Flasher #3)
Epping, ND (ranks Flasher #3)
Springbrook, ND (ranks Flasher #3)
Williston, ND (ranks Flasher #3)

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 →