Is this the dry side of the island?

I know that anyone who has been in Kona during the month of May will not believe it, but we do live on the dry side of the island. All of the rain is supposed to fall on the Hilo side. Also this is not the rainy season. Unlike the rest of the State, the rainy season in Kona is July and August.

With that being said, at our house we have had eight and a half inches of rain this month. I have been keeping records since we sold the tour business and have accumulated 13 years of data. This is the wettest May we have had in those years and the fifth wettest month in those 13 years. Betty keeps asking if we are sure we didn’t move to Hilo. It seems that we have had one storm system after another pass through the area. Betty asks if I can go outside and grill a steak for dinner. The words are no sooner out of her mouth and the clouds drop another torrent.

Despite all this rain, be assured that this weather is unusual for Kona. We can usually be sure that every day will be sunny and if it does rain it will be at night. We used to call Kona, Camelot, because it only rained at night. That has changed this year but we anticipate a return to our idealistic conditions.