Storybook version ^7.2.0 and Node Version 16.16.0 issues

[jurivero]

I am new on using storybook for UI, there is a project from a vendor who has develop a spfx project which involves storybook.
the requirements are:
Node Version 16.16.0
storybook version ^7.2.0

after doing a npm install on the storybook book and get all dependencies, the next step is npm run storybook and I get the following results
"To run Storybook you need to have Node.js 18 or higher "