Puna Weather
Tuesday 13th January 2026
Today light winds and mostly dry.
Wednesday into early Thursday moderate southeast winds and mostly dry.
Late Thursday and Friday moderate and sometimes breezy northeast winds with scattered windward showers.
Saturday and Sunday light to moderate east or northeast winds and widely scattered showers, mostly during the late night and early morning hours.
Another front is approaching from the northwest, turning our winds to southeasterly on Thursday. The front is fairly progressive and also weakening on approach (moisture anomaly animation), so rainfall is not expected to be heavy and the moisture moves off to our east by Saturday.
Long range models show a stronger front moving through the central Pacific basin around the middle of next week.
We continue to be in a La Nina state, which historically leads to enhanced rainfall for our island chain. Global models are leaning towards an ENSO neutral state later this spring and possible transition to El Nino during the summer. Weakening equatorial winds are already hinting at this exit from La Nina.
