We definitely had quite a bit of the type of rain that Dave is describing, just a faint mist. Although we’ve been to Maui many times before, this was our first time during the winter months. There was surely an increase amount in those types of showers, and luckily a corresponding increase in the number of rainbows.

Every few years there would be a decent rainbow and the reaction would be something like… “OMG! – Get the camera! – Wake the neighbors!”

The weather here is kind of strange… It “rains” almost every day but it’s more like sprinkling or misting than raining.

I’m not a meteorologist but it seems like small clouds from the mountain produce very isolated pockets of rain so the sky is mostly sunny & perfect for producing astonishingly beautiful rainbows almost every day.

Once I was in a very heavy shower of “Mist” on a very sunny day and I saw a super bright, double-rainbow that formed an almost complete circle right in front of me. It was so close that I felt like I could just reach out and grab it. I couldn’t believe my eyes. For me, it was an almost spiritual experience.

As the local folks say – No rain = No Rainbows.