Patent ID: 8707352

Claim:
A method for providing an animation sequence representative of local weather conditions, comprising: receiving a national program from a central system at a receiver unit as part of a data-cast; extracting information from the national program, the information containing a code based on the local weather conditions, wherein the code is determined as a function of weights applied to respective weather conditions based on a statistical relevance of indicators associated with the respective weather conditions; comparing the information to an identifier of the receiver unit to determine that the information pertains to the receiver unit, and in response to the determination, retrieving animation graphics from a library of animation graphics, the animation graphics selected based on the code; building an animation sequence from the animation graphics; and outputting the animation sequence for display at a display device, wherein the animation sequence illustrates how the local weather conditions affect a viewer, the animation sequence comprising a dynamic representation of at least one of the local weather conditions acting on an object.