Methow Valley The Rain Keeps Coming, Considering Acquiring Rain Gear?

I never thought I would consider getting additional rain gear for Methow Valley, but this seems to be the rainiest spring I have seen in two decades in Winthop, Washington.  It is interesting that I am getting reports the coast is very sunny. Have the weather gods gotten confused about which part of the state is supposed to be a high desert steppe and which region is touted as a temperate rain forest?

If this keeps up many residents in Methow Valley may need to consider high tech rain gear.

I did a little research myself just for fun about the latest rain gear technology.  Turns out there are some folks that take rain gear technology very seriously. One site seems to have three non porus layers and another with a layer that has holes for allowing your skin to breathe, but the claim is the holes are smaller than raindrops, thus they will not enter the small pores.  Some how when I think of the actual size of a water molecule this does not make much sense.  If they said the small holes were smaller than the size of a water molecule well now we are talking some serious considerations.

Another site seems to have a long discussion about the mini weather system inside the rain jacket and how they change the inner moisture so that you breathe and you do not get wet either.  They can get you sunny on the inside even when it is pouring outside apparently.

My historical usage of the latest and greatest breatheable rain gear back in the college days was a dim one as I clearly remember getting extremely wet with the fancy rain gear. I recall onet trip where I  was outside in a full on down pour in the Pasayten Wilderness, and 50 miles from any trail head. My darn llama refused to budge because he thought a mud puddle was a great big black hole he was going to fall into,  I was out in a high mountain meadow and the breathable stuff, wow I got absolutely soaked. I soon discovered that my inexpensive light weight PVC (non pourous) rain gear from Campmor  and Sierra Trading Post  (two sites that have great back country gear at affordable prices) worked best to keep me dry.  A lttile sweat I can handle, soaking wet not so good in the backcountry.