Moving this Year-Hilo Vs. Kona

[allensylves]

Lew,
I grew up in Eastern Washington, but went to college at UW in Seattle. The Puna rain comes mostly at night - obviously with recent exceptions!!, so it is very different from the gray, daylong drizzle of the PNW. You can get soaked from the plants when you go outside to work in the morning, but you have a reasonable chance of doing so with the sun shining. Much, much more enjoyable in Puna.

Allen
Baton Rouge, LA & HPP

[mella l]

Hi Lew,

My husband was born and raised in Portland also! When we married we lived in Portland for almost 2 years. As a California girl I couldn't take the low grey day in and day out with only 2 months of what I loosely describe as summer. I thought I would appreciate the rain in Portland as it seemed to me to be better than the 7 month droughts of No. Cal. Well the rain was dribbled out in 1/8 inch grey days for 10 months.

Perhaps you could rent a place in Puna for a month and decide. It is always summer in Puna rain or shine! Yes most of the rain comes in the evening or early morning, but there are days on end of rain, but it is still summer. The clouds are rarely of the low grey variety from our experience, and usually the puffy white ones sailing by.

These are subjective descriptions so I suggest one month on each side to decide. My thought is that you will come to love the east side unless you are looking for perpetual vacation life on the beach. Aloha, Mella L

mella l

[pam jones]

Mella,
You forgot to mention the DRY and HOT HOT summers that the Kona side has. Every time I go over in the summer it feels like all of the moisture gets zapped right out of my skin. Feels like AZ or West Texas. Yuck! pj