Puna Weather
Wednesday 4th November 2026
Today through Thursday moderate east or northeast trade winds with scattered windward showers mostly during the night and early morning hours.
Friday humid with moderate to breezy winds from the east or northeast. Frequent showers, possibly heavy at times.
Saturday and Sunday less humid with moderate easterly trade winds and scattered windward showers.
A ridge to our north spans much of the Pacific ocean. As the center to our northeast weakens, it's replaced with another as storms trek across the north Pacific (moisture loops). This pattern looks to hold for the next week.
To our south a wave in the ITCZ moves west brushing our island with moisture extending to around 10,000' on Friday. If the wave gains a little more amplitude we could see deeper moisture and flooding concerns again. The NHC shows a good chance of a tropical low forming somewhere near this wave. The global models keep the wave and any tropical low moving by to our south due in large part to the ridge that's driving our trade winds. Earlier model runs showed the storms to our far north weakening the ridge, but the most recent runs are much more assuring, keeping the ridge intake through the majority of the time a low would be passing by us.
