Puna Weather
Thursday 23rd July 2026
Today through Monday light to moderate easterly trade winds with widely scattered showers.
Beginning Tuesday humid with light winds and possibly rain.
Hurricane Fausto is being steered west or west-northwest by a broad ridge to the north. Along this path is mid-level dry and stable air. A hostile environment for a cyclone. If the storm takes a more northerly path it encounters high shear too. Either way the storm is shown by all models to be significantly degraded by the time it passes by us.
Model runs have be tending south, and closer to us, for a couple of days. The most recent European AI model shows the remnant circulation passing near or over our island in a week. Even a close pass by to our north would bring several days for warm and humid with rain as the GFS shows dew points in the mid 70s Tuesday through next Saturday.
