History Main / WeatherControlMachine

* In PaperMario, Huff N. Puff and his minions use of these to cover Flower Fields in clouds. The overcast is so bad that the sun actually falls into depression and leaves the sky, placing the citizens of Flower Fields (all of whom are plants) at risk.

* In ''PS238'', the fact that the school is covered by Weather Satelites is frequently mentioned (and, at one point, weaponized), but even their control cannot stand up to the powers of The Rainmaker. (He's a lot more dangerous than he sounds.) The ghost of a [[TheNameless nameless]] Native Shaman apparently also had weather-control powers when he was alive, and eventually gets to use them when he posseses a student with the ability to channel ghostly powers...

* [[spoiler:The titular ark]] in {{Ys}} VI: The Ark of Napishitim.

** The [=DNAliens=] also posses weather control machines in the SpinOff Series ''Ben10AlienForce'' "Everyone Talks About The Wheather".

* In the ''{{Underdog}}'' story "Weathering the Storm", Simon Barsinister combined this with an OminousPipeOrgan.

* Recently, its been reported that Abu Dhabi scientists have been able to use ionizers to create rain, thunder-, and hailstorms. The results aren't conclusive yet. The best that can be said is that it has rained more than usual after switching the ionizers on, during a dry season when it shouldn't be raining much at all.

* The "Weather Satellites" in ''Film/{{Superman}} III''.

* ''TheAvengers''. [[SeanConnery Sir]] [[MeaningfulName August De Wynter]] uses one to extort Great Britain. Slightly subverted in that he ''does'' plan to use it to make legitimate money (by "selling" weather to the countries of the world) but squeezes the VillainBall tight by also threatening to bring natural disasters on the countries that don't comply.

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-->''"The weather is no longer in {{God}}'s hands... it's in mine."''
-->-- [[LargeHam Evil Scotsman]] {{Sean Connery}}, ''TheAvengers [[TheMovie Movie]]''.

-->-- Cobra Commander, ''RobotChicken''

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[[caption-width:360:Today's Forecast: Partly Cloudy with a chance of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM!]]]]

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-->'''Stiletto''': I know why you call it that.
-->'''Greenback''': Why?
-->'''Stiletto''': 'Cause you don't know [[IncrediblyLamePun "weather"]] it will work! [[DopeSlap Ow!]]
* [[TheSimpsons Homer]] and his Nuclear Reactor team are way ahead of the Germ Warfare and Weather Machine divisions.

* ''{{Gadget And The Gadgetinis}}'' "The Weather Machine"

*** Except when its done within US borders apparently, since cloud seeding is regularly performed over the various remote military installations in California and Nevada (Edwards AFB, White Sands, etc). It's considered more effective there because there aren't a whole lot of clouds over those unholy wastelands in the first place.

** The DNAliens also posses weather control machines in the SpinOff Series ''Ben10AlienForce'' "Everyone Talks About The Wheather".

* ''Bucky OHare'' featured the Climate Converter, used by the Toads to turn Bucky's homeworld into a swamp.

* GeorgeWBush used a real-life weather machine to create Hurricane Katrina.

** It is not known [[IncrediblyLamePun whether]] or not this works.

-->'''Caire''': Do you think Weaving the Winds is like throwing the helm over on a darter? I just moved the rudder on a skimmer with a beam as broad as the world! He will take time to turn, time to know he is ''supposed'' to turn. That he ''must'' turn. But when he does, not the Father of Storms himself will be able to stand in his way.

** In their early appearances, Asgard vessels can apparently summon thunderclouds and lightning for visual effect when they swoop in and get their BigDamnGunship on. This is dropped in later seasons, as they stop flying their ships in atmosphere.

* The female magic-users of the Sea Folk in Robert Jordan's WheelOfTime primarily used their channeling to produce winds favorable for their boats.

* The "Weather Satellites" in ''{{Superman}} III''.

* Normand Lester’s science thriller ''{{Verglas}}'', the 1998 icestorm that struck the Montréal area is an experiment by the Pentagon in the development of a climactic weapon that went wrong. The book speculate that ULF waves generated by a transmitter at Siple Station, a US base in Antarctica, caused the icestorm by affecting the ionosphere over Québec.