Some Thoughts on Rain

I was on the porch yesterday awaiting the rain.  The gust front had come through and the temperature had dropped 7 or 8 degrees.  I noticed that across the street on Monroe it was raining furiously.  I mean, torrential. While at my porch, nada.
I was struck by the vagaries of nature whereby violent weather was separated from non-weather by something like 50 feet.
Not an earth shattering observation, but one that I think is causation for more reflection.