Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Cuttack

Wind Pattern in Cuttack

Windrose of Cuttack shows that dominant wind blow from the SSW much of the time - about 15.58% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 5.89% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SSW at speeds between 3 and 4 m/s. Further, at Cuttack much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 33.58% of the time. About 1.58% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SSW[15.6%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.9m/s

average speed

1.58%

calm

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

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

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 0.09 0.27 1.55 1.60 1.00 0.05 0.09 4.65
NNE 0.05 0.37 1.83 2.28 1.00 0.37 0.23 6.13
NE 0.05 0.23 1.69 1.74 1.05 0.32 0.32 5.40
ENE 0.09 0.09 1.00 1.19 0.68 0.09 0.23 3.37
E 0.14 0.05 0.68 1.51 0.73 0.09 0.32 3.52
ESE 0.09 0.18 1.00 1.46 0.46 0.00 0.23 3.42
SE 0.00 0.14 0.82 1.42 0.41 0.09 0.14 3.02
SSE 0.14 0.27 0.64 1.92 1.23 0.41 0.37 4.98
S 0.05 0.14 1.32 4.02 3.70 2.19 0.64 12.06
SSW 0.14 0.09 1.14 4.25 5.89 2.97 1.10 15.58
SW 0.05 0.05 1.51 4.52 3.61 0.91 0.55 11.20
WSW 0.23 0.37 1.87 3.38 2.79 0.82 0.46 9.92
W 0.14 0.23 1.83 2.19 1.51 1.10 0.55 7.55
WNW 0.09 0.18 1.23 0.64 0.55 0.59 0.23 3.51
NW 0.18 0.27 0.87 0.50 0.18 0.00 0.18 2.18
NNW 0.05 0.46 1.51 0.96 0.37 0.14 0.09 3.58
Total 1.58 3.39 20.49 33.58 25.16 10.14 5.73 100

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