not too sure about this. I know that Storm has control over extraterrestrial weather patterns, space lightning, and atmospheric patterns that arent native to Earth's nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere. She can create solar winds, ect.
she has also changed the molecular structure of her lightning for a variety of effects, primarily to change her costume in the Dark Phoenix Saga.
quasi related, this is a post about Storm's Omega mutant status, and that of some of the other Omegas in the X-men. I didnt write the post, its attributed to user Romafireheart on Marvelheroes.com
Have you all forgotten, she's on her own level of "Goddess"
Her mutation aside, she is also from a line of Sorceresses, Shamans and Mystics. I could be wrong but I don't think there has ever been a proper explanation of Storms power, it's on such a level that it should belong to a "god type". She is basically "Gaia", the life force, air, earth, fire, water. That's how she connects with other planets as well, she "tunes" in to planets' frequency and then bends them to her will. She could fly to Jupiter and stop the storms, she could go to Mars and cause a planet-wide flood, she could go into the Sun and alter it's structure from Plasma/Fire/Energy to Ice.
In other games she would be an "Elementalist", an Avatar of the life force of a planet. Her entire body is basically a conduit for the earths energy, that's why they wrote her with so many dramatic comments when she used her power, it was imho a depiction of her emotional state being made external, butterfly effect, chaos theory. She's "Channeling" the planetary power through her. Which in turn, ties her emotions to the eco-system, she gets ticked off, chaos happens, she calms, the sky clears. That's what "Control of her emotions/power" is implying. No one is saying that she can't control her power, but that her emotions, her will-power, are tied to them, she looses control of her emotions, she will loose control of the subtle energies.
Another example is when she gets trapped under stuff, her claustraphobia takes control and she looses control of her powers briefly and usually free's herself by instinct (big explosion to free her).
A long time ago, over 15 years ago, there was something I had read that talked about each mutants power potential. Storms was unlimited, if her power kept progressing, she had the potential to become Life & Death itself, all of reality is made out of Earth Air Fire & Water and she has power over that. Jubilee for example, her power had the "potential" of pure nuclear atomic destruction on any scale of her choosing. From giant city sized plasma blobs to tiny atomic molecular explosions that rip reality apart.
Cyclops had the potential to become as powerful and as pure as the red color ray, infra-red, dwarf-star type of power.
Xavier had the potential of becoming the "Global Consciousness Grid" of Earth, the voice of the planet and all it's inhabitants.
Jean Grey pretty much had hers happen with the Phoenix Saga, but even there they toned it down, due to the intense nature of Telekinesis and Telepathy being combined and basically, with just those two abilities, the potential, is EVERYTHING. All Life, all thought, all matter and anti-matter, everything. Hence why they keep killing her off, she would make Scarlet Witchs' reality bending powers look like "I love Lucy".
So, Storms power, think of her like a walking Planet, she even hears the planets cries of pain, even if she is on the other side of that planet or on one of it's moons, as long as she has bonded to a planet, she is connected to it. The sky, the water, the mountains, the fires and everything that goes with it, lava, sand, tsunamis, blood in the veins even. If it's from the planet she's tuning into, she has power over it. On top of that, she has her Sorcery background which she mainly uses for "protection", hence the amulet of her mother and all the storylines in Africa.
She suffers from this much power though, no one would know how to write her aside from a team of a Quantum Physicist, a string theoriest, a weather expert, an astromoer, and a shaman.
So understand everyone, that this topic, is so beyond open ended that it could go on eternally. Scientists today, don't even understand what the human body is capable of, let alone a mutant body, and one that is bonded with the life force of a planet and it's universe. She is pure potential and the only limit is her emotional capacity. So the question to ask isn't "What can she do", it's "How long can she keep it up" because bottom line, if it has anything to do with the primary elements of life, in some way, she will bend it to her will. Which is another reason why she is so resilient to Telepathy and Mind Control being used on her.
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