03-18-2013, 12:13 PM
Bottom line, with all the micro-climates in Puna alone... It's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. 
Not until you move there. Then you'll see. And you'll have to acclimate. Or move ten miles up or down and hope for better. I moved ten miles up from Hawaiian Acres several years ago (whose roads, btw, I don't think I can EVER get used to, they are HIDEOUSLY BAD) and was astonished at the difference in rainfall. But way less coquis and mosquitoes and other pests! Then we moved another ten miles up to Volcano and I'm astonished yet again, not by more rainfall, but way more mists and downright cold some nights. Hawaii just has no easy answers on that front. Once you get used to a pattern, she'll change it up. You can try Kona if you want dry, but then you're battling the wretched vog over there.
Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
Not until you move there. Then you'll see. And you'll have to acclimate. Or move ten miles up or down and hope for better. I moved ten miles up from Hawaiian Acres several years ago (whose roads, btw, I don't think I can EVER get used to, they are HIDEOUSLY BAD) and was astonished at the difference in rainfall. But way less coquis and mosquitoes and other pests! Then we moved another ten miles up to Volcano and I'm astonished yet again, not by more rainfall, but way more mists and downright cold some nights. Hawaii just has no easy answers on that front. Once you get used to a pattern, she'll change it up. You can try Kona if you want dry, but then you're battling the wretched vog over there.Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973