Update release notes and docs for 2.4 release

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  New Version Information for the Weather Utility
 =================================================
 
-:Copyright: (c) 2006-2016 Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>. Permission
+:Copyright: (c) 2006-2020 Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>. Permission
             to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is
             granted under terms provided in the LICENSE file distributed
             with this software.
 
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+2.4 Release
+-----------
+This is planned to be the last release supporting Python 2; starting
+with the 3.0.0 release, this software will only be usable with Python
+3.5 and later.
+
+Refreshed correlation sets and data sources including updating to 2019
+US Census locations and incorporating public domain airport information
+from the wonderful ourairports.com community, stopped using the long
+defunct metar.tbl and zonecatalog.curr.tar files, switched to HTTPS
+protocol since all the URLs had started redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS
+anyway, added functionality for fetching forecasts from HTML pages where
+they're wrapped in preformat tags and included a new forecast zone for
+the Hong Kong Observatory using this, fixed a few bugs when running
+under recent Python 3 versions.
+
 2.3 Release
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 Fixed a regression in the correlate function which reintroduced the