Climate twins of McCool Junction, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches McCool Junction'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.

Rank 1 closest
Brewster, NE
similarity distance: 0.866 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Oxford, NE
similarity distance: 0.983 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Cozad, NE
similarity distance: 1.021 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: McCool Junction vs its climate twin

Top match: Brewster, NE

Month McCool Junction Brewster
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.5°F 13.1°F 0.63 in 40.2°F 14.8°F 0.54 in
February 39.4°F 16.5°F 0.73 in 43.3°F 17.2°F 0.80 in
March 51.6°F 26.6°F 1.34 in 54.8°F 25.9°F 1.44 in
April 62.7°F 36.7°F 2.32 in 64.1°F 35.2°F 2.64 in
May 73.2°F 49.0°F 4.39 in 74.1°F 46.4°F 4.15 in
June 83.8°F 59.2°F 4.18 in 83.8°F 56.6°F 4.24 in
July 87.0°F 63.8°F 3.38 in 90.0°F 62.1°F 3.09 in
August 84.8°F 61.4°F 3.66 in 88.0°F 60.0°F 2.94 in
September 78.7°F 51.9°F 2.63 in 81.3°F 50.4°F 2.39 in
October 65.4°F 39.2°F 2.02 in 67.4°F 37.2°F 1.79 in
November 50.6°F 26.2°F 1.19 in 53.0°F 25.0°F 0.78 in
December 38.2°F 17.2°F 0.79 in 41.6°F 16.5°F 0.71 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 →