Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Kapurthala

Wind Pattern in Kapurthala

Windrose of Kapurthala shows that dominant wind blow from the NW much of the time - about 13.76% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 3.52% (max) of the time the wind blows from the NW at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s. Further, at Kapurthala much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 40.31% of the time. About 4.56% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NW[13.8%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

1.9m/s

average speed

4.56%

calm

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

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

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 0.27 0.73 3.52 3.20 0.50 0.09 0.00 8.31
NNE 0.27 0.59 3.20 1.87 0.23 0.05 0.00 6.21
NE 0.32 0.68 2.92 2.56 0.27 0.09 0.05 6.89
ENE 0.46 1.32 3.65 1.69 0.50 0.23 0.05 7.90
E 0.32 1.14 4.52 1.96 0.91 0.27 0.00 9.12
ESE 0.32 0.78 3.65 1.74 0.55 0.23 0.09 7.36
SE 0.41 1.05 2.51 1.00 0.64 0.55 0.27 6.43
SSE 0.27 0.91 1.05 0.55 0.18 0.23 0.00 3.19
S 0.23 0.41 0.59 0.14 0.18 0.05 0.00 1.60
SSW 0.18 0.27 0.59 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.13
SW 0.14 0.37 0.46 0.14 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.20
WSW 0.09 0.55 0.50 0.32 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.55
W 0.23 0.73 1.37 1.28 0.23 0.05 0.00 3.89
WNW 0.27 0.46 3.61 4.84 1.46 0.23 0.00 10.87
NW 0.32 1.10 4.20 6.35 1.42 0.32 0.05 13.76
NNW 0.46 0.96 3.97 4.29 0.87 0.05 0.00 10.60
Total 4.56 12.05 40.31 32.02 8.12 2.44 0.51 100

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