The recent Google Earth update introduced lots of new layers, but one extremely useful layer that passed under our radar (as it were) at first glance was the addition of a new weather layer. The layer includes radar information, current conditions, and forecasts pulled every 15 minutes from Weather.com and a cloud layer that updates hourly from the Naval Research Laboratory. So if you’re already obsessed with Google Earth for its stargazing and live flight tracking features, now you’ve got one more use for the freeware, cross-platform atlas.