Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Bikaner

Wind Pattern in Bikaner

Windrose of Bikaner shows that dominant wind blow from the SW much of the time - about 13.3% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 3.33% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Bikaner much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 11.51 m/s - which is 26.56% of the time. About 1.29% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SW[13.3%]

Dominant Direction

2-11.51m/s

Speed Range

3.4m/s

average speed

1.29%

calm

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

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

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 0.09 0.82 1.37 2.01 0.64 0.50 5.52
NNE 0.00 0.32 0.50 1.74 1.87 1.10 0.46 5.99
NE 0.14 0.09 1.23 1.64 1.60 0.50 0.37 5.57
ENE 0.14 0.27 1.14 1.96 1.92 0.78 0.32 6.53
E 0.09 0.23 1.46 2.05 1.92 0.91 0.37 7.03
ESE 0.05 0.09 1.23 2.10 2.33 0.59 0.27 6.66
SE 0.05 0.41 1.28 3.15 2.01 0.32 0.09 7.31
SSE 0.00 0.27 0.87 2.28 1.28 0.55 0.09 5.34
S 0.09 0.32 1.10 1.32 1.23 0.50 0.59 5.15
SSW 0.18 0.05 0.96 1.05 1.74 1.42 3.33 8.73
SW 0.14 0.46 0.73 2.19 1.83 1.69 6.26 13.30
WSW 0.09 0.09 0.82 1.64 1.10 1.05 1.69 6.48
W 0.09 0.27 0.64 1.10 1.05 0.64 0.82 4.61
WNW 0.09 0.14 0.59 0.82 1.19 0.59 0.37 3.79
NW 0.00 0.18 0.87 1.10 0.73 0.41 0.09 3.38
NNW 0.05 0.23 0.96 1.05 1.32 0.73 0.27 4.61
Total 1.29 3.51 15.20 26.56 25.13 12.42 15.89 100

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