Puna Weather
Thursday 16th July 2026
Today light to moderate easterly trade winds with widely scattered showers
Friday light winds and humid with periods of rain.
Saturday and Sunday light to moderate easterly trade winds. A little less humid with widely scattered showers, mostly during the night and early morning hours.
A ridge to our north is keeping weak trade flow over us through early next week. Mid-level dry air should limit showers through the period. Near the surface a band of high moisture moves over us late tonight through Friday causing dew points to rise into the lower 70s.
The tropical activity in the eastern Pacific looks to increase over the next couple of weeks. As far as risks to us go long range forecasts show the high shear that's been over us for the past month, moving to the north with us on the edge of it. Nonetheless deep convection in the ITCZ supports massive subsidence between us and 140W, leading to mid-level dry and stable conditions for the foreseeable future. This offers us considerable protection from storms approaching from the east.
