Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Barmer

Wind Pattern in Barmer

Windrose of Barmer shows that dominant wind blow from the SW much of the time - about 25.8% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 15.62% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Barmer much of the time winds blow at speeds between 5 and 12.37 m/s - which is 27.87% of the time. About 1% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SW[25.8%]

Dominant Direction

5-12.37m/s

Speed Range

3.9m/s

average speed

1.00%

calm

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

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

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 0.05 0.05 0.64 0.73 0.23 0.14 0.14 1.98
NNE 0.05 0.18 0.59 1.05 0.78 0.32 0.05 3.02
NE 0.05 0.18 0.87 1.96 2.51 1.87 0.27 7.71
ENE 0.09 0.14 1.14 3.33 2.42 0.96 0.23 8.31
E 0.00 0.23 1.23 2.56 0.78 0.09 0.09 4.98
ESE 0.05 0.09 0.96 1.87 0.32 0.05 0.00 3.34
SE 0.00 0.14 0.87 1.10 0.18 0.00 0.00 2.29
SSE 0.05 0.18 0.87 0.55 0.27 0.23 0.05 2.20
S 0.05 0.18 0.91 1.19 0.82 1.32 0.59 5.06
SSW 0.18 0.41 0.37 1.23 2.51 2.37 7.63 14.70
SW 0.05 0.32 1.46 1.87 3.15 3.33 15.62 25.80
WSW 0.05 0.32 0.78 2.28 2.37 2.47 2.92 11.19
W 0.05 0.18 0.41 1.28 0.91 0.55 0.18 3.56
WNW 0.18 0.23 0.46 0.82 0.55 0.14 0.05 2.43
NW 0.05 0.09 0.46 0.41 0.37 0.18 0.05 1.61
NNW 0.05 0.18 0.64 0.46 0.50 0.05 0.00 1.88
Total 1.00 3.10 12.66 22.69 18.67 14.07 27.87 100

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