Gimme a break! Do you have any idea how much energy would be required to influence large-scale weather phenomena?
Not to mention the power required for the wireless joystick to direct it...
No problem. I recall that a Coast guest after the last Northeast blackout said that it was caused by too much energy drawn from the atmosphere by a giant Tesla Coil at
a secret US-UK research base in Canada.
They just have to fire that thing up again, with some extra insulators...