I found this on YouTube after following a Twitter Feed to first of all this blog post
http://www.barnabu.co.uk/uksnow-twitter-animation-google-earth-5/
quote from above…. “As a knock-on of this there’s been a large amount of media buzz about the use of Twitter as a mob-sourced geo-mashup generator to show snowfall. Twitter users have been posting the first half of their postcode, plus the amount of snow in their location. 0 = no snow, 10 = bucket loads. ie: “#uksnow W12 9/10″ Developers have been mashing-up that data. Check out Ben Marsh’s neat, live Google Map mashup of this: #uksnow Tweets“


[...] February 5, 2009 by desimeleon Following on from my Twitter link Uk snow on Twitter/Google Earth [...]