01-21-2024, 01:36 AM
I've spoken to a number of old timers and universally they have described the "Hilo side" as being much wetter 30 years ago. I don't know if this is some Mandela Effect or if it was actually wetter or perceived wetter. I lived in SE Alaska for 15 years and although where I lived got less rain than here, it FELT like it was more. Maybe we got 1 inch of rain in a week but it was a drizzle that never ended. People would take off work early if the sun came out. Here we can get an inch of rain by 7am and it's sunny the rest of the day. We got a lot of cruise ship tourists and inevitably they would ask, "Does it always rain like this?" No! Sometimes it snows.