Climate twins of Scooba, MS

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

Top match: Rockford, AL

Month Scooba Rockford
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.4°F 34.8°F 5.88 in 54.6°F 34.6°F 5.72 in
February 60.4°F 38.3°F 5.36 in 59.5°F 37.7°F 5.79 in
March 68.1°F 45.3°F 6.39 in 67.4°F 43.4°F 5.93 in
April 75.1°F 51.6°F 4.92 in 75.0°F 49.6°F 5.19 in
May 81.9°F 60.5°F 3.87 in 81.0°F 58.3°F 4.78 in
June 87.8°F 68.2°F 4.81 in 86.1°F 65.6°F 4.54 in
July 91.1°F 71.2°F 4.70 in 88.7°F 69.2°F 5.33 in
August 90.7°F 70.6°F 7.19 in 87.2°F 68.7°F 5.07 in
September 86.2°F 64.9°F 3.67 in 83.2°F 63.7°F 3.79 in
October 76.4°F 52.9°F 3.83 in 73.9°F 52.5°F 3.60 in
November 65.6°F 42.1°F 4.21 in 64.0°F 42.2°F 4.97 in
December 57.8°F 37.5°F 5.13 in 56.7°F 37.1°F 5.48 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 →