The verb "looks" would be in this case a linking verb, since it is helping the reader understand the point of view of the observer. The weather itself is of course not "looking" anywhere.
The oracal is a huge plot creator because she sets the entire plot for its future everything that happened was because of her even tho she is a secoundary character.
No other anatomist tried a brain dissection before the narrator's attempt because people's brains did not have any problems back then. When the computing power of the people's brains started slowing down, it was then that the scientist decided to dissect the brain to investigate the reason why this was happening.