Was born to mother Margie[1] and father Tito Puente, a musician, songwriter and record producer.
[2] She is the sister of musician Tito Puente, Jr.[2] She studied speech communication at Syracuse University and served an apprenticeship at Hunter College.
[2] She received her Masters of Science in Geosciences with an emphasis on meteorology from Mississippi State University.
Puente is a news celebrity, meteorologist, and emcee, who works from New York City.
[6] In the mid-1990s, she was a meteorologist at WJCL and WTGS television in Savannah, Georgia, and WAPT in Jackson, Mississippi.