J-baby
2009-03-03 17:41:14 UTC
because Storm is an Omega Level Mutant who posseses:
Atmokinesis: Storm is a mutant who possesses the psionic ability to manipulate the weather. Her abilities allow her to shift her awareness and see the world as multi-colored energy patterns that she can mentally control. They also allow Ororo to feel the shift in the air which has came in good use against entering other dimensions (Black Panther 27) and sensing the approach of objects as big as helicopters (Black Panther 15).
She can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog) and even sense the composition of rainwater (Storm 2). Her manipulation of water has ranged from controlling ocean currents (XMU 6 and 39, Wolverine 38) to using raindrops as a lens to filtering out certain forms of solar energy (XMHY 6). She also has shown the ability to sense the movement of object while in the darkness of the ocean.
She can create winds of different strengths, ranging from a simple breeze to hurricane force (120+ mph) winds; she has produced winds that have been known to hammer starships (UXM 277), and even level the Fantastic Four's Fanasticar (Fantastic Four VS. X-men #3). Her finite control over the winds has vary from the precise rabid movement of a basketball sized object (Storm 4) to holding a multi-level building in mid-air (CoTC2 #2), to even levitating a rock as small as a pebble (X-treme X-men 39). Storm's control over the air also allows her to manipulate air pressure, creating powerful pressure domes to deflect attacks such as gunfire and falling debris(UXM 283) she has even drove through a mountain to it's surface with this technique.
Storm can raise or lower the humidity and temperature (ranging from -128F to 134F) around her. By mixing these two abilities Storm has been known to encase opponents within ice, going as far as holding Colossus in a block of ice (at the time, a Class 80 tons character) UXMA 6.
She can create lightning-like effects and other electrical atmospheric phenomena by drawing energy from the Earth�s electromagnetic field and casting it outwardly through her body (i.e. ball lightning, lightning bolts, Electromagnetic fields, electrolysis fields etc�); in certain accounts she has been known to generate electrical energy from within. Storm�s lightning attacks can vary from a bio-electric sting of 100,000 volts, which is strong enough to stun a person, to a fully charged lightning bolt, which have been shown to even effect the Silver Surfer (SS 85). (AN: It should be noted, that Storm rarely strike anything with a fully charged lightning bolt, which can reach temperatures close to 2 or 3 times the surface of the sun and contain over 1,000,000 volts of electricity). Outside of her ability to cast electrical energy from her person, Storm has shown the ability to manipulate the electrical energy within computer systems, see the brains electrical signals, scramble the telepathic powers of others and separate hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. (Gambit 2, UXM 152, XMU 7 and XXM 2). Storm's electrical powers have been used in a variety of ways. Some which include summoning lightning brighter than the sun (Uncanny X-men Annual 10) to causing a room full of people to not be able to see (Uncanny X-men 273).
She can disperse natural storms so as to create clear weather. Storm can cause the weather to change in an area around her, or she could create atmospheric effects in a beam-like path from her hand or hands: for example she often projects lightning bolts from her hands. Her control over the atmosphere is such that she can create certain effects over a specific area, while shielding smaller areas within the larger area from them (Ultimate X-men 47): for example she could create a rainstorm around herself but prevent rain water from touching her.
The limits to the size of the area over which Storm can manipulate the weather is not yet known. They actually vary on certaint occasions. She has summoned dark clouds stretching one mile in each direction (Uncanny X-men 109). She has diverted jet streams so as to create storms over the entire East Coast of the United States (UXM 147). (AN: It should be noted that Storm has on two occasions tapped into electromagnetic energy to enhance her powers. Once to stop a blizzard over Canada and second to create a cosmic-level turbulence around the Earth to block solar radiation(UXM 121, MSH Winter Special 1991). She can create weather effects within indoor areas or within artificially maintained environments: for example she could create an indoor rainstorm. She can create weather effects over very small areas; as when she water her potted planets.
Storm can fly through the air by causing herself to be supported and propelled by wind currents. Her control is so great that only a small breeze can be felt by her fellow X-Men as she flies by them. Storm can travel as f