Puna Weather
Sunday 27th September 2026
Today very humid with heavy rain, decreasing later in the day and moderate easterly winds.
Monday through Wednesday still a bit humid with light to moderate southeast winds and scattered showers.
Thursday into next weekend moderate easterly trade winds with scattered showers, mostly during the night and early morning hours.
Hurricane Nolo is a large and powerful storm which will continue to pump tropical moisture from the southeast over us through Wednesday, after that it will be too far to the west and trade winds will push much drier air over us from the east. These drier trade winds will still contain bands of enhanced moisture for typical trade wind weather with moderate east or northeast winds and scattered showers. Even when the trades return it will continue to be a bit more humid than normal due to the higher than normal sea surface temperatures to our east.
Temperatures did rise over the Nino 3.4 region for a month, but are back to rising again. Models show this El Nino continuing to strengthen for several more months. Globally sea surface temperature anomalies (between 60N and 60S) are at 0.72C. The record highest single day was 0.73C on January 10, 2024.
