Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Tharikalnala

Wind Pattern in Tharikalnala

Windrose of Tharikalnala shows that dominant wind blow from the E much of the time - about 18.86% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 2.69% (max) of the time the wind blows from the E at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s. Further, at Tharikalnala much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 38.39% of the time. About 2.85% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

E[18.9%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

2.4m/s

average speed

2.85%

calm

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

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

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 0.32 0.50 1.69 0.64 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.15
NNE 0.05 0.37 0.64 0.37 0.14 0.00 0.00 1.57
NE 0.18 0.46 2.01 1.00 0.64 0.09 0.09 4.47
ENE 0.09 0.32 4.79 4.47 1.74 0.32 0.09 11.82
E 0.23 0.64 7.85 7.17 2.24 0.55 0.18 18.86
ESE 0.23 0.50 4.06 1.60 0.14 0.14 0.05 6.72
SE 0.18 0.87 1.74 0.55 0.05 0.00 0.00 3.39
SSE 0.18 0.37 1.00 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.73
S 0.14 0.27 0.78 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.33
SSW 0.14 0.59 0.41 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.28
SW 0.09 0.46 1.60 0.32 0.09 0.14 0.00 2.70
WSW 0.37 0.50 2.51 2.05 1.69 1.23 1.37 9.72
W 0.05 0.46 3.06 4.47 2.74 3.11 4.66 18.55
WNW 0.23 0.32 2.69 1.78 1.14 1.46 0.78 8.40
NW 0.14 0.55 1.87 0.87 0.14 0.00 0.00 3.57
NNW 0.23 0.73 1.69 0.09 0.05 0.00 0.00 2.79
Total 2.85 7.91 38.39 25.84 10.80 7.04 7.22 100

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