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in the US the NWS / NOAA operates weather stations at airports, wouldn't be surprised if other countries have similar programs.

my hometown has a much larger population than the next one over, but the next one over is listed because there's an airport there.

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You missed my point maybe - the fact that your hometown is bigger and not listed is exactly the problem. There are a number of small cities listed that do not have airports also. The key is that a listed city either lists as 'airport' (population 0), or is a very small city (low population). So my point is that the filtering is probably backwards, and it's filtering out big cities instead of filtering out small ones.

Maybe. ;)

Might it not be likely that an application dependent on weather data is actually limited to locations for which weather data is available, regardless of population?

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