Climate twins of La Follette, TN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches La Follette'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: La Follette vs its climate twin
Top match: Pulaski, TN
| Month | La Follette | Pulaski | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 44.4°F | 25.2°F | 5.11 in | 48.2°F | 25.4°F | 5.29 in |
| February | 49.8°F | 27.8°F | 5.35 in | 52.5°F | 28.1°F | 5.66 in |
| March | 59.6°F | 33.3°F | 5.48 in | 61.2°F | 35.2°F | 5.48 in |
| April | 70.1°F | 41.1°F | 5.75 in | 70.9°F | 43.3°F | 5.13 in |
| May | 77.0°F | 50.9°F | 4.31 in | 78.0°F | 52.6°F | 4.57 in |
| June | 82.7°F | 59.4°F | 4.87 in | 84.9°F | 61.4°F | 4.78 in |
| July | 85.1°F | 63.4°F | 5.38 in | 88.1°F | 65.5°F | 4.83 in |
| August | 84.5°F | 62.5°F | 4.27 in | 87.8°F | 63.8°F | 4.37 in |
| September | 79.8°F | 56.3°F | 4.06 in | 83.0°F | 56.4°F | 4.12 in |
| October | 69.5°F | 43.8°F | 3.37 in | 72.5°F | 43.9°F | 3.81 in |
| November | 57.4°F | 33.8°F | 4.03 in | 60.8°F | 33.2°F | 4.26 in |
| December | 47.5°F | 28.7°F | 5.69 in | 51.3°F | 28.2°F | 6.28 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 →