Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Kolhapur

Wind Pattern in Kolhapur

Windrose of Kolhapur shows that dominant wind blow from the W much of the time - about 21.14% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 6.99% (max) of the time the wind blows from the W at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Kolhapur much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 8.99 m/s - which is 33.11% of the time. About 1.73% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

W[21.1%]

Dominant Direction

2-8.99m/s

Speed Range

2.9m/s

average speed

1.73%

calm

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

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

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 0.18 0.87 1.28 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.51
NNE 0.18 0.23 1.74 1.51 0.09 0.00 0.00 3.75
NE 0.18 0.23 1.64 1.69 0.37 0.05 0.00 4.16
ENE 0.18 0.41 2.74 4.84 1.14 0.41 0.14 9.86
E 0.09 0.27 1.74 4.34 2.79 0.82 0.14 10.19
ESE 0.18 0.32 1.46 2.37 1.00 0.23 0.00 5.56
SE 0.09 0.37 0.64 0.55 0.14 0.00 0.00 1.79
SSE 0.14 0.41 0.41 0.18 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.23
S 0.09 0.23 0.37 0.18 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.96
SSW 0.05 0.18 0.55 0.14 0.18 0.00 0.00 1.10
SW 0.14 0.27 1.19 0.91 0.50 0.18 0.00 3.19
WSW 0.09 0.50 2.42 2.79 2.33 3.52 3.38 15.03
W 0.09 0.23 2.88 5.25 2.69 3.01 6.99 21.14
WNW 0.05 0.23 4.11 2.97 1.28 1.05 0.55 10.24
NW 0.00 0.46 1.78 2.92 0.64 0.05 0.14 5.99
NNW 0.09 0.27 1.42 1.19 0.32 0.05 0.00 3.34
Total 1.73 4.79 25.96 33.11 13.74 9.37 11.34 100

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