Climate twins of Roscoe, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Roscoe'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: Roscoe vs its climate twin
Top match: Bland, MO
| Month | Roscoe | Bland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.4°F | 21.0°F | 1.87 in | 40.2°F | 20.5°F | 2.39 in |
| February | 47.3°F | 24.6°F | 2.09 in | 45.8°F | 23.9°F | 2.01 in |
| March | 58.3°F | 34.5°F | 2.80 in | 56.0°F | 32.8°F | 3.37 in |
| April | 67.5°F | 44.4°F | 4.62 in | 67.2°F | 42.9°F | 4.43 in |
| May | 76.9°F | 54.6°F | 5.52 in | 75.5°F | 52.8°F | 5.19 in |
| June | 85.5°F | 64.0°F | 5.12 in | 83.4°F | 61.8°F | 4.68 in |
| July | 90.3°F | 68.1°F | 4.57 in | 87.7°F | 66.0°F | 4.50 in |
| August | 89.3°F | 66.2°F | 3.82 in | 87.1°F | 63.9°F | 4.31 in |
| September | 80.9°F | 57.5°F | 4.02 in | 79.9°F | 55.5°F | 4.03 in |
| October | 69.8°F | 45.7°F | 3.49 in | 68.6°F | 44.2°F | 3.55 in |
| November | 56.5°F | 34.2°F | 3.12 in | 55.7°F | 33.8°F | 3.35 in |
| December | 45.7°F | 25.0°F | 2.20 in | 44.5°F | 25.0°F | 2.53 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 →