Climate twins of Wood Lake, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Wood Lake'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: Wood Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Harris, MN
| Month | Wood Lake | Harris | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 24.1°F | 2.7°F | 0.81 in | 21.9°F | 3.6°F | 0.74 in |
| February | 29.0°F | 6.6°F | 0.83 in | 27.1°F | 7.3°F | 0.72 in |
| March | 42.0°F | 19.7°F | 1.47 in | 40.4°F | 19.9°F | 1.38 in |
| April | 57.4°F | 32.9°F | 2.41 in | 56.0°F | 33.5°F | 2.71 in |
| May | 70.9°F | 45.1°F | 3.50 in | 68.8°F | 45.7°F | 3.59 in |
| June | 80.2°F | 55.3°F | 4.56 in | 77.4°F | 56.5°F | 4.20 in |
| July | 85.0°F | 59.8°F | 3.27 in | 81.8°F | 60.7°F | 4.22 in |
| August | 81.9°F | 57.5°F | 3.81 in | 79.8°F | 58.1°F | 3.63 in |
| September | 75.1°F | 48.0°F | 3.18 in | 71.5°F | 49.5°F | 3.07 in |
| October | 59.7°F | 35.4°F | 2.35 in | 57.7°F | 37.2°F | 2.80 in |
| November | 42.8°F | 22.3°F | 1.37 in | 41.1°F | 24.7°F | 1.61 in |
| December | 28.6°F | 9.7°F | 1.08 in | 26.9°F | 11.2°F | 0.99 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 →