Climate twins of Osceola, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Osceola'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: Osceola vs its climate twin
Top match: Yates Center, KS
| Month | Osceola | Yates Center | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.4°F | 21.0°F | 1.87 in | 42.0°F | 20.6°F | 1.07 in |
| February | 47.3°F | 24.6°F | 2.09 in | 47.4°F | 24.2°F | 1.63 in |
| March | 58.3°F | 34.5°F | 2.80 in | 57.3°F | 33.1°F | 2.67 in |
| April | 67.5°F | 44.4°F | 4.62 in | 66.9°F | 43.2°F | 4.12 in |
| May | 76.9°F | 54.6°F | 5.52 in | 75.2°F | 54.5°F | 5.89 in |
| June | 85.5°F | 64.0°F | 5.12 in | 84.6°F | 63.9°F | 5.47 in |
| July | 90.3°F | 68.1°F | 4.57 in | 89.3°F | 68.3°F | 5.04 in |
| August | 89.3°F | 66.2°F | 3.82 in | 88.8°F | 66.3°F | 3.75 in |
| September | 80.9°F | 57.5°F | 4.02 in | 81.2°F | 57.9°F | 4.37 in |
| October | 69.8°F | 45.7°F | 3.49 in | 69.6°F | 46.0°F | 3.73 in |
| November | 56.5°F | 34.2°F | 3.12 in | 56.8°F | 33.9°F | 2.26 in |
| December | 45.7°F | 25.0°F | 2.20 in | 45.1°F | 24.6°F | 1.81 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 →