Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Jorhat

Wind Pattern in Jorhat


Windrose of Jorhat shows that dominant wind blow from the NNE much of the time - about 14.62% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 5.71% (max) of the time the wind blows from the NNE at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s. Further, at Jorhat much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 43.72% of the time. About 5.39% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NNE[14.6%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

1.7m/s

average speed

5.39%

calm

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


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

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 0.41 1.46 2.88 3.93 0.78 0.00 0.00 9.46
NNE 0.50 2.24 5.21 5.71 0.96 0.00 0.00 14.62
NE 0.46 1.78 6.03 4.84 1.00 0.09 0.05 14.25
ENE 0.18 0.87 3.93 2.15 0.64 0.00 0.00 7.77
E 0.32 0.87 2.69 0.50 0.14 0.00 0.00 4.52
ESE 0.46 1.00 1.83 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.56
SE 0.41 0.87 1.19 0.09 0.05 0.00 0.00 2.61
SSE 0.18 1.00 1.28 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.64
S 0.27 1.19 2.01 0.87 0.09 0.00 0.00 4.43
SSW 0.23 0.59 3.24 1.96 0.78 0.37 0.00 7.17
SW 0.46 1.05 3.38 2.15 0.82 0.64 0.27 8.77
WSW 0.27 1.00 3.11 0.91 0.18 0.00 0.00 5.47
W 0.27 0.96 1.96 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.46
WNW 0.14 1.00 1.69 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.10
NW 0.37 1.00 1.42 0.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.25
NNW 0.46 0.73 1.87 1.83 0.05 0.00 0.00 4.94
Total 5.39 17.61 43.72 26.39 5.49 1.10 0.32 100

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