Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Solapur

Wind Pattern in Solapur

Windrose of Solapur shows that dominant wind blow from the W much of the time - about 19.73% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 14.52% (max) of the time the wind blows from the W at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Solapur much of the time winds blow at speeds between 3 and 10.52 m/s - which is 25.97% of the time. About 0.8% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

W[19.7%]

Dominant Direction

3-10.52m/s

Speed Range

3.9m/s

average speed

0.80%

calm

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

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

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 0.00 0.05 0.41 0.82 0.73 0.78 0.18 2.97
NNE 0.00 0.05 0.59 0.96 0.91 0.55 0.09 3.15
NE 0.05 0.23 0.46 1.96 1.19 0.50 0.37 4.76
ENE 0.00 0.14 0.87 2.42 3.15 2.05 0.32 8.95
E 0.05 0.14 0.82 3.06 4.79 1.46 0.18 10.50
ESE 0.00 0.27 1.00 2.15 3.65 0.78 0.14 7.99
SE 0.09 0.05 0.73 2.24 1.74 0.91 0.09 5.85
SSE 0.05 0.37 1.32 1.46 1.55 0.41 0.05 5.21
S 0.14 0.14 0.96 0.73 0.73 0.46 0.14 3.30
SSW 0.09 0.09 0.37 0.18 0.27 0.09 0.14 1.23
SW 0.05 0.09 0.27 0.82 0.55 0.32 0.09 2.19
WSW 0.14 0.14 0.32 0.55 0.68 1.23 3.65 6.71
W 0.05 0.05 0.37 1.00 1.37 2.37 14.52 19.73
WNW 0.00 0.09 0.50 0.78 1.87 1.32 3.84 8.40
NW 0.09 0.18 0.32 0.91 1.92 1.32 0.32 5.06
NNW 0.00 0.14 0.64 0.87 0.87 0.96 0.55 4.03
Total 0.80 2.22 9.95 20.91 25.97 15.51 24.67 100

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