Climate twins of Floodwood, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Floodwood'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: Floodwood vs its climate twin
Top match: Erskine, MN
| Month | Floodwood | Erskine | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 17.9°F | -3.7°F | 0.63 in | 15.9°F | -5.2°F | 0.52 in |
| February | 23.7°F | -0.8°F | 0.66 in | 21.2°F | -1.6°F | 0.54 in |
| March | 36.3°F | 13.0°F | 1.15 in | 34.8°F | 12.9°F | 0.95 in |
| April | 50.1°F | 26.8°F | 2.29 in | 51.3°F | 27.9°F | 1.76 in |
| May | 63.7°F | 38.6°F | 2.93 in | 65.5°F | 41.1°F | 3.01 in |
| June | 72.5°F | 48.3°F | 4.92 in | 74.3°F | 51.8°F | 4.64 in |
| July | 77.1°F | 53.0°F | 3.89 in | 78.2°F | 55.4°F | 3.93 in |
| August | 75.5°F | 51.2°F | 3.17 in | 77.4°F | 52.5°F | 3.54 in |
| September | 67.0°F | 43.5°F | 3.50 in | 68.8°F | 44.5°F | 2.97 in |
| October | 52.5°F | 31.9°F | 2.78 in | 53.2°F | 32.4°F | 2.25 in |
| November | 36.0°F | 19.2°F | 1.24 in | 35.9°F | 17.9°F | 1.61 in |
| December | 23.1°F | 5.5°F | 0.99 in | 22.1°F | 4.0°F | 0.83 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 →