How do weather apps and websites know the exact weather of every suburb?

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Curious to find out whether they take a measurement from each suburb, or if they have a few measuring equipment dotted around the city and use science to fill in the blanks.

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In the U.S., at least, there typically are monitoring stations scattered at various points which take readings. These are part of the same systems meteorologists use to get their data and make their predictions.

The number of stations in a given area is dependent on several things, including terrain, number of people, and others. However, you probably aren’t more than a few miles from your nearest station, in most cases.

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