ELI5, How does the weather app knows everything about the weather

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Hello! I’ve been wondering for quite a while now, how does the weather app seems to know the wind speed, temperature and all the other things about basicly any given location, and seemingly pretty accurately. I understand that big cities might have certain sensors, and whatnot, but what about small villages, or places in the middle of nowhere? How does it know all that?

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Because weather systems are huge. Meteorologists measure and calculate how the entire weather systems move. A forecast is a series of samples taken from a specific location within the big weather model as it evolves. If a powerful cold front 1000 miles wide is moving across an area, we can predict that both the big cities and the middle-of-nowheres it hits will get heavy rain and thunderstorms.

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