[jQuery] access :hover css properties of an element via jquery

[jQuery] access :hover css properties of an element via jquery


hello!
imagine i style the :hover pseudo-class of an element via css:
.myitem{
background-color:green;
}
.myitem:hover{
background-color:red
}
Is it possible to retrieve the background-color property of the
elemnent's :hover class via jquery?
i tried the obvious : http://jsbin.com/idudi/edit
$(function(){
var temp = $('#myitem:hover').css('background-color');
alert("color is "+temp);
});
But that didn't work. It returns the default state.