Only speculating, but perhaps if winds higher up were much stronger or from a different direction, then aircraft on approach would want to know that from 500' down the winds didn't vary much as that's when they'd most likely want the aircraft to be at its most stable in the approach?
Perhaps the forecast said something different?
Happy to be corrected by those in the know.
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