Does iGoogle Know It’s Raining at My House?

Ok, the strangest thing happened this morning. It started to rain about 20 minutes ago (pretty strange huh), which I was hoping it would do at some point this morning since California’s drought has led me to desire precipitation more now than ever. Anyway, other than it being wonderful surprise I had something else happen to me that was interesting.

I use iGoogle as my home page to be able to see top news, diggs, and other fun stuff. I also use one of their popular themes, the bus stop theme. Now I did know that this theme does change depending on what time of day it is, so it is dark at night, there is a dusk scene etc. Well, all morning it has looked just fine, until I opened my browser a few minutes ago, and it was RAINING at the bus stop!

Now I would have thought this as a coincidence except that it has never rained at the bus stop before. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like:

http://www.kylehayes.info/share/igoogle_rain.png

UPDATE: I just checked out the theme settings and it did ask me to put my zip code in some time ago so that it will update based on the local conditions. I didn’t expect it to get this detailed though! Good job Google, this put a smile on my face.