Climate twins of McLemoresville, TN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches McLemoresville'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: McLemoresville vs its climate twin
Top match: Horse Cave, KY
| Month | McLemoresville | Horse Cave | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 47.0°F | 28.2°F | 4.18 in | 47.2°F | 29.0°F | 4.14 in |
| February | 51.8°F | 30.6°F | 4.58 in | 52.4°F | 31.3°F | 4.40 in |
| March | 61.1°F | 38.4°F | 5.45 in | 61.6°F | 39.0°F | 5.15 in |
| April | 71.3°F | 47.1°F | 5.25 in | 72.8°F | 46.5°F | 5.27 in |
| May | 79.1°F | 57.3°F | 5.91 in | 80.7°F | 56.2°F | 5.77 in |
| June | 86.3°F | 65.8°F | 4.66 in | 87.3°F | 64.0°F | 4.88 in |
| July | 89.2°F | 69.3°F | 4.74 in | 90.3°F | 67.9°F | 4.97 in |
| August | 88.8°F | 67.4°F | 3.60 in | 89.9°F | 65.8°F | 3.44 in |
| September | 83.1°F | 59.4°F | 3.49 in | 83.8°F | 58.7°F | 3.79 in |
| October | 72.2°F | 47.3°F | 3.99 in | 73.5°F | 48.0°F | 3.74 in |
| November | 59.8°F | 37.2°F | 4.72 in | 60.4°F | 38.5°F | 3.92 in |
| December | 50.1°F | 31.0°F | 5.35 in | 50.5°F | 32.3°F | 5.41 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 →