It's raining, it's pouring ...
For a full explanation of this experiment, you can visit the blog post. If you would like, you can download the files associated with this experiment. Or, take a look at the source code.
For testing purposes you can append the following to the url to test different weather movies:
If it is raining (or snowing, or thundering) in your area, you can append the following to the url to test whether or not this method will display your weather in the header:
- ?z=21703 (Frederick, Maryland, USA)
- ?z=94089 (Sunnyvale, Calirfornia, USA)
- ?z=##### (Your zip or location id)
When the conditions (as passed by Yahoo through an XML file) contain certain text, you will not be able to modify the movie that is displayed. For example, if Yahoo says it's snowing, the snow movie will play, regardless of the c parameter you pass.