Climate twins of Mount Ida, AR
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Mount Ida'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: Mount Ida vs its climate twin
Top match: Dyer, TN
| Month | Mount Ida | Dyer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 50.2°F | 28.3°F | 3.96 in | 48.1°F | 27.7°F | 4.16 in |
| February | 54.7°F | 30.5°F | 4.22 in | 52.6°F | 31.1°F | 4.70 in |
| March | 62.5°F | 38.1°F | 5.07 in | 61.8°F | 38.7°F | 5.32 in |
| April | 70.9°F | 46.2°F | 6.07 in | 72.1°F | 47.4°F | 5.27 in |
| May | 77.3°F | 56.3°F | 6.55 in | 80.1°F | 57.8°F | 6.24 in |
| June | 85.0°F | 64.6°F | 4.66 in | 87.4°F | 66.0°F | 4.39 in |
| July | 89.7°F | 68.5°F | 4.21 in | 90.2°F | 69.6°F | 4.30 in |
| August | 89.7°F | 66.5°F | 3.00 in | 90.0°F | 66.9°F | 3.70 in |
| September | 82.9°F | 58.8°F | 4.57 in | 84.2°F | 59.3°F | 4.20 in |
| October | 72.9°F | 46.1°F | 4.68 in | 73.7°F | 47.2°F | 3.68 in |
| November | 61.7°F | 37.2°F | 5.37 in | 61.1°F | 37.0°F | 4.79 in |
| December | 52.5°F | 29.7°F | 5.54 in | 51.2°F | 30.9°F | 5.43 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 →