Puna Weather
Sunday 12th April 2026
Today through most of next week humid with light winds and scattered showers, mostly during the afternoons. Along with the light winds comes the risk of VOG.
The low that brought the last round of rain to our island chain is moving slowly to the northeast leaving light winds (surface animation) and tropical moisture (moisture animation) over us for several more days.
Far to our west, near Guam, super typhoon Sinlaku has strengthened to 888mb. This record breaking storm is likely to bring tropical storm for winds to Guam and miss Japan entirely, but could take a path that brings an extended period of its strongest eyewall winds directly over Saipan, population 43k (see animation). Sinlaku is unusual not only in its early season strength, but also in its location, being over 1,000 miles farther east than previous April records.
