The Birth: Storm is descended from a line of African witch-priestesses which can be traced back to the dawn of humanity. All of the women in this line of descent have white hair ( throughout their lives ) and blue eyes and the potential for magical abilities, while the men have none of these attributes.
Ororo Munroe a.k.a Storm was born to David Munroe, an American photojournalist, and N'Dar, an Kenyan princess, in New York City. While she was just a baby her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt because of a job assignment. When she was six a plane crashed into her home, killing both of her parents and burying Storm and the body of her mother under the rubble of their home. This incident caused Storm to have a fear of small places.
While Storm was living as a street urchin, stealing from people she met Charles Xavier. She had picked his pocket and he chased her down, but before he could fully investigate her the Shadow King distracted him and she escaped.
By the time her mutant power to control the weather had emerged she was staying on the Serengeti Plain beneath Mount Kilimanjaro. Storm used her power to help several local tribes.
It was during this time that Charles Xavier came to Africa and presuaded her that she should use her powers to benefit all humanity by joining the X-Men. Ororo did so, under the code-name Storm.

The Alter Ego: Storm was born Ororo Munroe; daughter to David Munroe, an American photojournalist, and N'Dar, an Kenyan princess. For the six years after her parents death, Ororo lived with Achmed El-Gibar and other street urchins. Achmed taught Storm to be a thief. Achmed el-Gibar taught children to steal for him, and Ororo became his prize pupil. Within a year she became the most accomplished sneak thief and pickpocket in Cairo. Achmed el-Gibar also taught her to become a superb lockpick and escape artist.
At the age of 12, feeling that there was more to life, Storm left Cairo and traveled through the Sahara desert to her mother's homeland of Kenya. It was during this journey that her powers first manifested themselves. When she arrived in Kenya Storm use her powers to help the local tribes by providing rain whenever they needed it. The next several years Storm lived the life of a goddess to the tribes. In helping these tribes, Ororo developed her sense of responsibility to use her abilities for the benefit of others. After that she joined the X-Men to use her power to battle the forces of evil.
Storm also keeps a large greenhouse in the attic of the X-Mansion--her powers make her an excellant gardener!
Storm's mutant powers created a psychic bond between herself and primal life force of Earth's biosphere. This link may have been broken by a long stay in outer space with the X-Men while battling the Brood. This may be one of the factors underlying Storm's subsequent drasric changes in her attitudes, Hairstyle, and manner of dress.

The Legend: When the X-Men first clashed with the community of mutant outcasts called the Morlocks, Storm fought a personal combat with the Morlock's leader, Callisto. In defeating Callisto, Storm became the new leader of the Morlocks. Storm remained with the X-Men, and allowed Callisto to rule in her absence, but the Morlocks must now obey Storm whenever she returns and gives them orders.
When the X-Men's leader Cyclops took a leave of absence, Storm became the group's leader.
Storm's fellow X-Man Rogue was wrongly accused of murdering a SHIELD agent. Greatly distraught over personal matters, Rogue left X-Men headquarters and secretly went to Mississippi, where she had once lived. Storm followed her there, seeking to help her. Meanwhile, Henry Peter Gyrich and Valerie Cooper of the U.S. federal government and accompanying troops were hunting down Rogue. Gyrich, an agent of the National Security Council, had, with presidential authorization, obtained the only working model of an untested " neutralizer " device created by the inventor known as Forge to deprive a superhuman being of his or her superhuman powers. In the ensuing battle, Storm inadvertently was "neutralized" by trying to protect Rogue. Her superhuman powers appararently removed, Storm fell into a river, from which Forge rescued her.
Blaming himself, Forge brought Storm to his headquarters in Dallas,Texas. There Storm revived, and she and Forge grew strongly attracted to each other. However, when Storm learned that Forge had designed the neutralizer gun that had deprived her of her powers, she felt betrayed. Her hatred of Forge persists to this day.
Storm left the X-Men for a time to return to Africa, where she regained her peace of mind. She has since returned to her role as leader of the X-Men. Storm recently regained her powers through the intervention of Forge. However, shortly thereafter, Storm and the rest of the X-Men were apparently killed. In reality, the demigoddess Roma has transferred the X-Men to the Australian Outback. Furthermore, she made the X-Men effectively invisible to cameras, psionics, and power detection. Storm led the X-Men in a secret campaign against supervillains , evil mutants, and would-be mutant exterminators.
After returning to the States, Storm continued her fight against evil with Professor Xavier guiding her moves. She also became the leader of the X-Men's Gold Strike Force--using her awesome powers for the good of mankind and mutantkind alike!