[startupmum]

Very nice as a hack. I am not sure about the usability of it, and a lot of the comments already capture that. If you really wanted to hack this, how about the following: 1. You package it as an app (not that hard to do, from where you'll be starting) 2. You let people set parameters for how often they want to be notified, for which city and in which scale 3. You use the push notification feature to push them the notifications as per their settings.

But all that's just trying to create the better weather app/notifier. And there's tons of ways to do that.

What you've done is really cool with the icon becoming the widget, and for that, it is a great idea. Makes me think what else you could be using this hack for - not just weather. Imagine sponsorship space - share icon space with main advertiser for a content app. Or display your high score in a game. Or show the last badge you earned in a gamified app....the possibilities are endless. Very cool hack!