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Ha! ya, first time I realized this I was like 14 and we went to the Midwest during the summer and there was a big storm. Before that, I always thought summer = dry and hot everywhere.

It rains in the tropics, like in those tropical rainforests.

How about Maui: '"Big Bog," a spot on the edge of Haleakala National Park overlooking Hana at about 5,400 feet elevation had an estimated mean annual rainfall of 404.4 inches over the 30-year period of 1978 to 2007' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui#Rainfall)

Here I am from Michigan thinking "When else would it rain?!?!"

It's funny you mention this, I'm 37 and just visited Las Vegas for the first time recently ... as a Floridian, I never fathomed that air could be _that dry_.

In in California and I'm perplexed that it even rains here anymore...