Once you step onto the island, you’ll see the gadget placed near a campfire. To use the Weather Machine in Fish It, press the E key to power it on and choose the type of weather you want to activate.

We couldn’t always predict the weather. It took huge strides in physics, atmospheric science, computer science and engineering to connect the dots between what’s going on in the sky at any given ...

The future is often portrayed, in books and in articles, as being overrun by the sinister consequences of robotics and artificial intelligence. In “The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast,” ...

Disastrous hurricanes. Widespread droughts and wildfires. Pervasive heat. Extreme rainfall. Something is up with the weather, and scientists agree the trend is not just a coincidence. It's the result ...

A woman in a Jan. 11 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows news headlines about the deep freeze that hit the country in January. “Remember the cold winter that Biden had talked about?" the ...

Are you planning to leave town a week or so from now? Chances are you’ll check a weather app to figure out what to pack. And you’ll probably wind up with the right outfits. And this is because weather ...

Since 1988, the noontime mechanical performance of the Weather Machine has been delighting and confusing visitors to downtown Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square. Every day, the one-of-a-kind, ...

The Great Lakes and Northeast bore the brunt of nasty winter weather as lake-effect snow piled up near the shores of Lake ...

The weather station atop The Gazette’s building, installed in 1964, included a wooden, slatted enclosure that housed a thermometer. To the right is a tipping bucket rain gauge. (Gazette archives) Buy ...