Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Nashik

Wind Pattern in Nashik

Windrose of Nashik shows that dominant wind blow from the WSW much of the time - about 21.78% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 4.06% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WSW at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s. Further, at Nashik much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 36.11% of the time. About 1.15% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WSW[21.8%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

3.0m/s

average speed

1.15%

calm

The annual wind rose below showing how wind speed and direction are typically distributed in Nashik.

This table shows the frequency and speed of wind blowing from each direction in Nashik.

Table of Frequencies (%)

Table of Frequencies (%)
Direction < 0.5 0.5-1.0 1.0-2.0 2.0-3.0 3.0-4.0 4.0-5.0 > 5.0 Total
N 0.09 0.27 1.10 2.01 0.37 0.00 0.00 3.84
NNE 0.00 0.23 0.91 2.51 0.27 0.00 0.00 3.92
NE 0.09 0.23 1.19 2.79 0.55 0.14 0.00 4.99
ENE 0.05 0.09 1.46 3.24 0.46 0.27 0.09 5.66
E 0.00 0.09 1.55 4.38 1.64 0.41 0.09 8.16
ESE 0.14 0.23 1.60 3.47 1.83 0.27 0.00 7.54
SE 0.18 0.32 0.64 0.78 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.01
SSE 0.00 0.27 0.50 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.95
S 0.00 0.14 0.41 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.60
SSW 0.00 0.09 0.73 0.14 0.14 0.05 0.00 1.15
SW 0.05 0.18 1.32 0.91 0.96 0.32 0.87 4.61
WSW 0.18 0.09 1.83 2.60 3.52 4.29 9.27 21.78
W 0.14 0.23 2.88 4.06 2.69 2.65 2.47 15.12
WNW 0.23 0.32 1.74 3.42 1.74 0.91 0.55 8.91
NW 0.00 0.41 1.46 3.01 0.82 0.32 0.05 6.07
NNW 0.00 0.32 1.23 2.56 0.55 0.05 0.00 4.71
Total 1.15 3.51 20.55 36.11 15.63 9.68 13.39 100

The graph below shows the minimum, maximum and average wind speed, m/s over the year in Nashik.