Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Pulicat

Wind Pattern in Pulicat

Windrose of Pulicat shows that dominant wind blow from the NE much of the time - about 13.89% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 2.05% (max) of the time the wind blows from the NE at speeds between 4 and 5 m/s. Further, at Pulicat much of the time winds blow at speeds between 3 and 4 m/s - which is 28.92% of the time. About 0.94% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NE[13.9%]

Dominant Direction

3-4m/s

Speed Range

3.7m/s

average speed

0.94%

calm

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

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

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 0.00 0.09 0.23 0.59 0.37 0.23 0.27 1.78
NNE 0.05 0.09 0.73 1.69 1.69 0.73 1.00 5.98
NE 0.05 0.09 0.37 3.79 5.94 2.33 1.32 13.89
ENE 0.09 0.14 0.91 3.65 3.29 0.68 0.27 9.03
E 0.00 0.14 0.64 2.74 1.28 0.46 0.14 5.40
ESE 0.05 0.05 0.64 1.55 1.10 0.55 0.05 3.99
SE 0.09 0.05 0.50 2.33 1.60 1.28 0.23 6.08
SSE 0.00 0.05 0.32 2.01 2.42 2.37 2.24 9.41
S 0.09 0.14 0.64 1.23 1.87 2.05 1.78 7.80
SSW 0.23 0.05 0.82 1.19 2.33 2.05 1.78 8.45
SW 0.00 0.14 0.41 1.28 1.64 1.74 0.55 5.76
WSW 0.05 0.00 0.18 0.91 2.42 2.01 1.78 7.35
W 0.05 0.09 0.27 0.32 1.92 2.74 3.61 9.00
WNW 0.05 0.00 0.18 0.50 0.46 0.87 1.69 3.75
NW 0.09 0.14 0.05 0.09 0.32 0.14 0.27 1.10
NNW 0.05 0.23 0.18 0.23 0.27 0.18 0.14 1.28
Total 0.94 1.49 7.07 24.10 28.92 20.41 17.12 100

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