Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Goalpara

Wind Pattern in Goalpara

Windrose of Goalpara shows that dominant wind blow from the NE much of the time - about 12.46% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 1.69% (max) of the time the wind blows from the NE at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s. Further, at Goalpara much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 49.5% of the time. About 5.72% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NE[12.5%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

1.6m/s

average speed

5.72%

calm

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

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

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 0.50 1.51 2.56 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.75
NNE 0.37 2.05 6.03 1.32 0.09 0.00 0.00 9.86
NE 0.68 2.10 5.75 3.29 0.55 0.09 0.00 12.46
ENE 0.32 1.23 4.61 2.15 0.73 0.09 0.00 9.13
E 0.37 0.96 2.42 1.60 0.14 0.00 0.00 5.49
ESE 0.41 1.69 2.10 0.78 0.27 0.00 0.00 5.25
SE 0.46 0.96 1.69 0.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.57
SSE 0.23 0.82 2.01 0.41 0.05 0.00 0.00 3.52
S 0.27 1.23 3.74 0.64 0.05 0.00 0.00 5.93
SSW 0.32 1.60 4.06 2.01 0.50 0.09 0.00 8.58
SW 0.14 1.32 4.16 2.83 1.14 0.46 0.05 10.10
WSW 0.14 1.55 3.20 1.83 0.41 0.27 0.05 7.45
W 0.27 0.91 2.79 1.05 0.14 0.00 0.00 5.16
WNW 0.41 0.55 1.87 0.78 0.05 0.00 0.00 3.66
NW 0.46 0.41 1.19 0.68 0.05 0.00 0.00 2.79
NNW 0.37 0.46 1.32 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.33
Total 5.72 19.35 49.50 20.19 4.17 1.00 0.10 100

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