What is some of the strangest weather phenomena that take place on other planets?

“Here in our Solar System, there are some really extreme weather conditions. Neptune, for example, is the planet with the strongest winds of our planetary system.

In Neptune, winds can reach speeds of 2,200 km/h. That is 1.8 times the speed of sound, 60 percent faster than a 9mm bullet, and even faster than an F-35 fighter.

63 light years away from Earth is a massive planet called HD 189733 b.

On this planet, winds reach speeds of 8,690 km/h, about 18 times faster than the strongest wind ever recorded on Earth.

But the most extreme characteristic of such world is that it also rains molten glass on its surface.

With glass raining sideways at speeds of thousands of kilometers per hour, it is difficult to imagine that anything could survive there.

Then we have Gliese 436 b, a planet 33 light years away from us. This planet is massive and is very close to its star.

For this reason, the surface temperature of the planet is about 440 degrees Celsius. The incredible thing is that Gliese 436 b is covered by a deep water ocean.

Due to the extreme gravity of the planet, such water is neither gaseous nor liquid, but solid, more solid than the

ice on Earth. In fact, the water there is so compressed that it is in the form of a crystalline material harder than stone, called Ice VII. So Gliese 436 b is a planet covered by ice burning at hundreds of degrees. That is weird.

CoRoT-7b, an exoplanet located 489 light years away from Earth, is radically different from any planet in our Solar System. This planet orbits very close to its star, resulting in high temperatures on its surface.

If we also consider that the planet is rocky and tidally locked -that is, it always gives the same face to its star, then CoRoT-7b is literally a planet of ice and fire.

While one side of the planet is hot as hell, with temperatures as high as 2,600 degrees Celsius,

the dark side of the planet has temperatures as low as -212 degrees Celsius. Oh, and if that were not enough, scientists also believe that in CoRoT-7b it rains rocks.”
-Brian Molinari, Quora