The wind speed of a devastating Category 5 hurricane can top over 150 miles per hour (241km/hour.) Now imagine another kind of wind with an average speed of 0.87 million miles per hour (1.4 million km/hour.) Welcome to the wind that begins in our sun and doesn’t stop until after it reaches the edge of the heliosphere: the solar wind.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-effects-solar.html