Climate twins of Rosepine, LA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Rosepine'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: Rosepine vs its climate twin

Top match: Seminary, MS

Month Rosepine Seminary
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.4°F 38.6°F 5.53 in 61.8°F 34.0°F 5.88 in
February 63.9°F 42.1°F 4.69 in 66.3°F 38.2°F 5.13 in
March 70.2°F 48.3°F 4.97 in 72.6°F 44.4°F 5.29 in
April 76.7°F 55.0°F 4.97 in 79.6°F 51.9°F 5.09 in
May 83.7°F 62.8°F 5.17 in 86.3°F 60.5°F 4.67 in
June 89.7°F 69.6°F 4.51 in 91.8°F 67.7°F 3.94 in
July 92.2°F 71.8°F 5.42 in 94.1°F 70.4°F 5.07 in
August 92.9°F 71.2°F 3.96 in 93.7°F 69.7°F 4.93 in
September 88.4°F 66.2°F 4.95 in 89.5°F 64.5°F 3.93 in
October 79.7°F 55.7°F 5.10 in 80.7°F 53.2°F 3.81 in
November 69.3°F 46.4°F 5.24 in 70.7°F 42.6°F 4.43 in
December 62.1°F 40.0°F 5.99 in 63.5°F 37.0°F 5.90 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 →