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you can click on that gear icon in the top right to add/remove cities. The list of available ones is quite limited tough, and it’s very US-Centric

on second inspection, that “gear icon” only appears when looking at it on the iPad.

I see it on my iPhone as well.

Thomas added this to the mobile version of the app first (last week). It'll be on the "full" version soon.