Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Puri

Wind Pattern in Puri

Windrose of Puri shows that dominant wind blow from the SSW much of the time - about 20.33% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 10.23% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SSW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Puri much of the time winds blow at speeds between 3 and 11.98 m/s - which is 26.53% of the time. About 0.64% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SSW[20.3%]

Dominant Direction

3-11.98m/s

Speed Range

3.9m/s

average speed

0.64%

calm

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

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

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 0.00 0.23 0.41 0.82 0.68 0.50 0.18 2.82
NNE 0.05 0.14 0.78 1.46 1.64 1.05 1.19 6.31
NE 0.05 0.23 0.87 1.96 1.83 1.51 0.87 7.32
ENE 0.00 0.18 0.64 1.46 1.96 0.32 0.37 4.93
E 0.05 0.05 0.32 1.23 1.42 0.09 0.09 3.25
ESE 0.00 0.09 0.55 0.96 0.87 0.00 0.23 2.70
SE 0.05 0.05 0.41 0.91 0.32 0.05 0.18 1.97
SSE 0.05 0.09 0.46 0.96 0.91 0.18 0.37 3.02
S 0.09 0.05 0.32 1.64 1.92 1.92 2.83 8.77
SSW 0.05 0.14 0.64 1.74 3.33 4.20 10.23 20.33
SW 0.05 0.14 0.59 2.92 5.57 4.61 4.79 18.67
WSW 0.05 0.23 0.87 2.15 3.61 1.55 0.87 9.33
W 0.05 0.18 0.50 1.00 1.28 0.68 0.87 4.56
WNW 0.00 0.23 0.82 0.59 0.59 0.27 0.32 2.82
NW 0.05 0.27 0.55 0.18 0.14 0.14 0.09 1.42
NNW 0.05 0.09 0.46 0.50 0.46 0.09 0.18 1.83
Total 0.64 2.39 9.19 20.48 26.53 17.16 23.66 100

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