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Neptune’s Wild Weather By: Madeline Abel

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Introduction
Have you ever been in a
hurricane? Well, the hurricanes on
Neptune are really strong. The
winds blow faster than 1,200 miles
per hour. One hurricane on
Neptune was as big as Earth!
Neptune has the craziest weather
out of all the planets in our Solar
System.
Hurricanes
Hurricane’s on Neptune are caused
by internal heat from Neptune’s core.
The core is as hot as the Sun’s
surface. There was a hurricane as big
as Earth called The Great Dark Spot.

Freezing The Great Dark Spot

As I explained before there was a
Temperature hurricane as big as Earth on Neptune.
If you’ve ever been outside when The Great Dark Spot was a spinning
it’s really windy out you know it’s storm, it was found when the Voyager 2
cold. Now imagine it’s 100 times ( The first spacecraft to fly by Neptune)
colder and the wind speed is 1,200 found it in 1989. The Hubble Space
miles per hour. That’s how cold Telescope looked at Neptune again in
Neptune is. Temperature on Neptune 1994 and the huge hurricane was gone,
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is below zero. The average but another smaller one appeared in its
temperature is -353 degrees northern atmosphere.
fahrenheit. Its average cloud
temperature is - 350 degrees
fahrenheit. Its average distance from
the Sun is 2,795,173,960 miles. That’s
why it’s so cold.

The Great Dark Spot is similar to Jupiter’s Great

Red Spot.

Conclusion
Neptune’s weather is the craziest out
of all the planets in our Solar System so
Wiping Winds when it’s windy out remember how fast
Winds on Neptune are usually the winds on Neptune are!
l,200 miles per hour. That’s the
fastest winds in our Solar System. The
fastest wind recorded on Neptune
was 1,500 miles per hour. The highest
winds on Earth only go up to 230
miles per hour.
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