The Rain Falls Mainly...Everywhere!

In Hawaii, our rainfall has been so copious as to merit a mention in the Drudge Report, whose breathless headline "106 inches of rain in Hawaii--in 3 weeks" links to this:

Waiakea Uka and Glenwood topped the totals for the Big Island, getting 43.6
inches and 42.9 inches, respectively -- up to four times higher than normal.
Mountain View saw 37.8 inches, compared with 4 inches last year.

All the storms were created by low pressure systems northwest of the islands, which produce unstable air and tap into tropical moisture, Nash said. A high pressure
system to the east of the state has blocked the storms, stopping them from
moving quickly across land.