Climate twins of Fordyce, NE
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Fordyce'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: Fordyce vs its climate twin
Top match: Gregory, SD
| Month | Fordyce | Gregory | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 30.4°F | 10.0°F | 0.63 in | 31.6°F | 10.1°F | 0.55 in |
| February | 35.0°F | 13.8°F | 0.91 in | 35.9°F | 13.1°F | 0.75 in |
| March | 47.3°F | 24.2°F | 1.58 in | 46.8°F | 22.5°F | 1.34 in |
| April | 59.2°F | 35.7°F | 3.56 in | 57.6°F | 33.3°F | 3.12 in |
| May | 70.5°F | 47.8°F | 3.96 in | 68.8°F | 45.0°F | 4.13 in |
| June | 80.7°F | 58.9°F | 4.26 in | 79.6°F | 55.9°F | 4.18 in |
| July | 85.2°F | 63.6°F | 3.30 in | 86.6°F | 61.7°F | 2.99 in |
| August | 82.8°F | 61.3°F | 3.13 in | 84.7°F | 59.3°F | 3.14 in |
| September | 76.0°F | 52.5°F | 3.19 in | 76.7°F | 49.6°F | 2.41 in |
| October | 61.7°F | 38.2°F | 2.64 in | 61.6°F | 35.7°F | 2.36 in |
| November | 46.4°F | 25.1°F | 1.26 in | 46.8°F | 23.0°F | 0.95 in |
| December | 33.7°F | 14.3°F | 0.91 in | 34.5°F | 13.8°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 →