Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Ram Dittawala

Wind Pattern in Ram Dittawala

Windrose of Ram Dittawala shows that dominant wind blow from the NNW much of the time - about 12.34% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 4.57% (max) of the time the wind blows from the NNW at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s. Further, at Ram Dittawala much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 40.04% of the time. About 1.93% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NNW[12.3%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.3m/s

average speed

1.93%

calm

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

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

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 0.14 0.59 2.51 4.75 1.51 0.23 0.05 9.78
NNE 0.18 0.64 2.19 4.57 1.00 0.09 0.05 8.72
NE 0.00 0.27 2.24 3.47 0.64 0.14 0.09 6.85
ENE 0.09 0.59 2.19 3.38 0.59 0.14 0.00 6.98
E 0.14 0.37 3.70 2.83 1.10 0.32 0.05 8.51
ESE 0.18 0.55 3.20 3.06 1.92 1.14 0.78 10.83
SE 0.14 0.41 1.69 1.60 0.73 0.68 0.55 5.80
SSE 0.09 0.64 1.42 0.68 0.05 0.05 0.05 2.98
S 0.18 0.41 0.82 0.32 0.18 0.05 0.00 1.96
SSW 0.05 0.27 0.73 0.18 0.05 0.05 0.00 1.33
SW 0.14 0.27 0.73 0.59 0.27 0.05 0.14 2.19
WSW 0.18 0.37 0.46 0.50 0.27 0.23 0.09 2.10
W 0.05 0.50 0.78 0.87 0.18 0.09 0.00 2.47
WNW 0.18 0.55 1.19 2.42 0.82 0.27 0.05 5.48
NW 0.14 0.68 2.47 4.84 3.15 0.41 0.05 11.74
NNW 0.05 0.32 3.61 5.98 2.15 0.18 0.05 12.34
Total 1.93 7.43 29.93 40.04 14.61 4.12 2.00 100

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