Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Solan

Wind Pattern in Solan

Windrose of Solan shows that dominant wind blow from the NE much of the time - about 24.02% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately % (max) of the time the wind blows from the NE at speeds between and m/s. Further, at Solan much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 47.35% of the time. About 2.21% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NE[24.0%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

1.8m/s

average speed

2.21%

calm

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

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

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 0.32 0.27 1.14 4.70 0.23 0.00 0.00 6.66
NNE 0.14 0.59 6.58 4.66 0.32 0.00 0.00 12.29
NE 0.32 4.79 15.62 3.20 0.09 0.00 0.00 24.02
ENE 0.18 1.14 4.11 0.96 0.23 0.05 0.00 6.67
E 0.05 0.50 1.87 0.64 0.18 0.00 0.00 3.24
ESE 0.23 0.73 1.32 0.59 0.14 0.05 0.00 3.06
SE 0.14 0.37 1.28 0.59 0.00 0.09 0.00 2.47
SSE 0.14 0.27 1.10 0.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.97
S 0.00 0.55 0.73 0.41 0.05 0.00 0.00 1.74
SSW 0.05 0.37 1.23 0.32 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.97
SW 0.00 0.78 1.42 0.27 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.56
WSW 0.05 0.87 2.05 1.83 0.37 0.00 0.00 5.17
W 0.14 0.59 3.56 4.06 1.23 0.14 0.00 9.72
WNW 0.18 0.64 2.60 4.98 1.23 0.55 0.14 10.32
NW 0.09 0.32 1.87 1.64 0.41 0.05 0.00 4.38
NNW 0.18 0.37 0.87 2.28 0.09 0.00 0.00 3.79
Total 2.21 13.15 47.35 31.59 4.66 0.93 0.14 100

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