Climate twins of Medicine Lake, MT
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Medicine Lake'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: Medicine Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Halliday, ND
| Month | Medicine Lake | Halliday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 22.1°F | -0.1°F | 0.33 in | 24.4°F | 0.2°F | 0.36 in |
| February | 26.4°F | 3.9°F | 0.16 in | 28.6°F | 3.8°F | 0.36 in |
| March | 39.0°F | 16.3°F | 0.42 in | 41.0°F | 15.4°F | 0.73 in |
| April | 54.6°F | 29.6°F | 0.93 in | 55.1°F | 28.0°F | 1.36 in |
| May | 66.5°F | 41.4°F | 2.39 in | 66.4°F | 39.8°F | 2.62 in |
| June | 75.1°F | 50.6°F | 2.90 in | 75.6°F | 49.7°F | 3.25 in |
| July | 82.7°F | 55.6°F | 2.65 in | 83.5°F | 53.7°F | 2.46 in |
| August | 82.6°F | 53.0°F | 1.54 in | 84.2°F | 52.3°F | 1.84 in |
| September | 72.0°F | 42.1°F | 1.17 in | 73.1°F | 42.9°F | 1.72 in |
| October | 55.3°F | 29.4°F | 0.89 in | 56.4°F | 29.5°F | 1.17 in |
| November | 38.2°F | 15.8°F | 0.36 in | 40.2°F | 15.7°F | 0.55 in |
| December | 26.9°F | 5.3°F | 0.32 in | 27.6°F | 5.7°F | 0.41 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 →