Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Ghatshila

Wind Pattern in Ghatshila

Windrose of Ghatshila shows that dominant wind blow from the N much of the time - about 8.31% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 3.15% (max) of the time the wind blows from the N at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s. Further, at Ghatshila much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 42.97% of the time. About 1.49% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

N[8.3%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

2.2m/s

average speed

1.49%

calm

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

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

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 0.27 3.61 3.47 0.64 0.18 0.09 8.31
NNE 0.05 0.37 2.24 2.65 0.37 0.09 0.00 5.77
NE 0.05 0.50 2.42 1.05 0.23 0.14 0.18 4.57
ENE 0.09 0.27 1.69 1.05 0.64 0.32 0.27 4.33
E 0.14 0.09 1.60 1.00 0.46 0.50 0.64 4.43
ESE 0.14 0.27 1.46 1.60 0.82 0.23 0.37 4.89
SE 0.05 0.32 2.15 2.33 0.87 0.27 0.32 6.31
SSE 0.09 0.46 2.74 1.78 0.87 0.23 0.09 6.26
S 0.05 0.55 3.15 2.15 1.23 0.50 0.09 7.72
SSW 0.05 0.32 3.15 2.60 0.82 0.23 0.09 7.26
SW 0.09 0.55 3.70 2.28 1.00 0.37 0.14 8.13
WSW 0.09 0.68 3.33 1.64 0.91 0.73 0.37 7.75
W 0.05 0.55 1.87 0.64 0.41 0.37 0.14 4.03
WNW 0.14 0.91 2.37 1.14 0.14 0.09 0.00 4.79
NW 0.27 0.55 4.11 2.19 0.00 0.05 0.00 7.17
NNW 0.09 0.50 3.38 3.79 0.50 0.05 0.00 8.31
Total 1.49 7.16 42.97 31.36 9.91 4.35 2.79 100

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