Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Guntur

Wind Pattern in Guntur

Windrose of Guntur shows that dominant wind blow from the SSE much of the time - about 14.84% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 1.46% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SSE at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s. Further, at Guntur much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 35.33% of the time. About 1.66% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SSE[14.8%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.9m/s

average speed

1.66%

calm

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

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

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 0.09 0.78 0.64 0.23 0.05 0.23 2.20
NNE 0.05 0.41 1.10 1.32 0.32 0.05 0.05 3.30
NE 0.05 0.27 1.92 1.55 0.55 0.14 0.09 4.57
ENE 0.05 0.27 1.28 2.28 1.00 0.27 0.05 5.20
E 0.23 0.23 2.42 2.42 0.37 0.00 0.00 5.67
ESE 0.14 0.46 2.19 3.01 0.41 0.09 0.00 6.30
SE 0.14 0.50 2.19 4.52 1.28 0.32 0.05 9.00
SSE 0.09 0.14 1.96 5.89 4.66 1.92 0.18 14.84
S 0.09 0.18 1.64 4.61 2.88 1.19 0.00 10.59
SSW 0.05 0.09 1.00 1.55 1.42 0.18 0.05 4.34
SW 0.00 0.14 1.05 1.46 0.27 0.09 0.00 3.01
WSW 0.09 0.23 0.82 1.23 0.68 0.59 0.59 4.23
W 0.18 0.14 0.87 1.69 2.05 2.56 4.38 11.87
WNW 0.09 0.09 0.68 1.74 1.32 2.05 3.97 9.94
NW 0.18 0.27 0.78 0.87 0.46 0.37 0.23 3.16
NNW 0.05 0.18 0.32 0.55 0.37 0.05 0.27 1.79
Total 1.66 3.69 21.00 35.33 18.27 9.92 10.14 100

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