I was driving to the airport in Kona when it rained. This is the "Sun Coast", they get rain one day a year usually, and this was it. Traffic had pulled off to the side of the road, in fact it was not a heavy rain. I dropped my kids off at the airport and spotted a water spout nearby, that was really strange, to me.
You can drive about 45 miles and be in rain forest, or another 45 and see snow.