Climate twins of Loma, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Loma'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: Loma vs its climate twin
Top match: Mohall, ND
| Month | Loma | Mohall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 12.5°F | -5.0°F | 0.45 in | 16.4°F | -1.7°F | 0.43 in |
| February | 17.1°F | -2.0°F | 0.36 in | 20.6°F | 1.0°F | 0.47 in |
| March | 29.8°F | 12.0°F | 0.59 in | 32.9°F | 12.9°F | 0.73 in |
| April | 48.0°F | 27.6°F | 1.14 in | 51.2°F | 26.1°F | 1.13 in |
| May | 63.5°F | 40.4°F | 3.13 in | 64.8°F | 38.4°F | 2.51 in |
| June | 71.9°F | 51.6°F | 4.17 in | 73.9°F | 49.6°F | 3.76 in |
| July | 76.6°F | 55.8°F | 3.44 in | 79.1°F | 54.0°F | 2.62 in |
| August | 76.5°F | 53.8°F | 2.45 in | 79.6°F | 51.3°F | 2.24 in |
| September | 67.3°F | 44.0°F | 2.11 in | 69.2°F | 41.9°F | 1.70 in |
| October | 50.9°F | 30.6°F | 1.52 in | 52.8°F | 29.6°F | 1.33 in |
| November | 32.3°F | 15.7°F | 0.75 in | 34.5°F | 16.1°F | 0.75 in |
| December | 18.2°F | 2.2°F | 0.64 in | 21.1°F | 4.0°F | 0.55 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 →