Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Nirjan

Wind Pattern in Nirjan

Windrose of Nirjan shows that dominant wind blow from the NW much of the time - about 18.28% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately % (max) of the time the wind blows from the NW at speeds between and m/s. Further, at Nirjan much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 38.59% of the time. About 2.25% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NW[18.3%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.4m/s

average speed

2.25%

calm

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

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

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 0.18 0.64 1.60 4.25 0.87 0.27 0.00 7.81
NNE 0.14 0.59 1.69 2.47 0.46 0.00 0.00 5.35
NE 0.05 0.41 2.05 1.55 0.27 0.05 0.05 4.43
ENE 0.18 0.37 1.55 1.32 0.27 0.05 0.05 3.79
E 0.23 0.55 2.19 2.33 0.78 0.46 0.09 6.63
ESE 0.14 0.46 3.01 2.97 1.55 1.14 1.46 10.73
SE 0.18 0.55 1.74 1.87 0.96 0.64 0.50 6.44
SSE 0.18 0.50 1.05 0.55 0.09 0.05 0.00 2.42
S 0.09 0.50 0.59 0.18 0.05 0.00 0.05 1.46
SSW 0.14 0.59 0.78 0.18 0.05 0.00 0.00 1.74
SW 0.05 0.37 0.87 0.32 0.09 0.05 0.00 1.75
WSW 0.05 0.37 0.78 0.82 0.37 0.23 0.23 2.85
W 0.09 0.46 1.69 1.05 0.55 0.27 0.18 4.29
WNW 0.18 0.68 2.92 3.06 2.37 0.59 0.18 9.98
NW 0.14 0.50 2.79 9.32 4.34 1.05 0.14 18.28
NNW 0.23 0.68 2.97 6.35 1.69 0.14 0.05 12.11
Total 2.25 8.22 28.27 38.59 14.76 4.99 2.98 100

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