Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Meerut

Wind Pattern in Meerut

Windrose of Meerut shows that dominant wind blow from the WNW much of the time - about 22.79% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 10.18% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WNW at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s. Further, at Meerut much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 35.44% of the time. About 2.75% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WNW[22.8%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.3m/s

average speed

2.75%

calm

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

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

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 0.27 0.32 2.47 1.14 0.09 0.00 0.00 4.29
NNE 0.09 0.64 1.87 0.78 0.09 0.00 0.05 3.52
NE 0.05 0.50 1.69 0.64 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.88
ENE 0.09 0.73 1.74 0.82 0.27 0.05 0.05 3.75
E 0.14 0.59 2.79 2.10 0.64 0.37 0.32 6.95
ESE 0.23 0.55 2.51 2.37 1.55 1.64 1.60 10.45
SE 0.09 1.05 1.83 1.37 0.50 0.37 0.23 5.44
SSE 0.14 0.50 0.64 0.32 0.23 0.05 0.00 1.88
S 0.32 0.37 0.91 0.05 0.05 0.00 0.00 1.70
SSW 0.23 0.46 0.96 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.70
SW 0.23 0.50 1.00 0.14 0.00 0.05 0.00 1.92
WSW 0.23 0.18 1.00 0.37 0.05 0.05 0.00 1.88
W 0.23 0.46 1.87 1.69 0.59 0.27 0.09 5.20
WNW 0.14 0.73 3.84 10.09 5.30 1.96 0.73 22.79
NW 0.09 0.64 3.47 10.18 3.38 1.00 0.05 18.81
NNW 0.18 0.64 2.05 3.33 0.68 0.00 0.00 6.88
Total 2.75 8.86 30.64 35.44 13.42 5.81 3.12 100

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