-The list of stations is found at http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.gz (it's
-thousands of lines long, so I recommend keyword searching in your browser or
-using grep(1) to find what you're looking for). From time to time, the
-compression on their site seems to be failing, resulting in zero-byte files. If
-you run into this issue, you can get uncompressed and zip-compressed versions
-by replacing the "gz" suffix in the URL with "txt" or "zip" respectively. The
-list can also be obtained from the following URLs in a pinch, though they are
-not guaranteed to be up to date (thanks Celejar!):
-
- * http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt
- * http://aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/stations.txt
+The list of stations included in the "stations" file is comprised of
+thousands of entries, so if you're within the USA it's recommended to
+use weather's built-in Census place name and ZCTA (postal ZIP code)
+searching capabilities. Otherwise, using its latitude,longitude
+coordinate search feature is probably your best bet. See the weather(1)
+manual for examples.