(AP) — The region where Hawaiʻi’s world-famous Kona coffee grows usually experiences its wet season in the summer, but it saw even more rain than usual last month. The Hawaiʻi Tribune-Herald reports one coffee belt gauge, Kealakekua, posted its highest May rainfall total on record. A National Weather Service hydrologist says all the gauges in that area picked up a good amount. However, according to the National Weather Service, most of the Big Island’s rain gauges measured near-to-below-average amounts of rain for most of May.

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