I've been in rain coming down hard enough to have the wiper blades on while the sun is shining brightly through the clouds. The valley we live in is large, about 30-35 miles long and 5 wide, though it is much wider in spots if you count the small palisades above the Colorado and Gunnison rivers, and catches interesting weather patterns. Surrounded by mesas and other plateaus up to 10,000 feet and more, you can see several different kinds of weather in most directions, esp. in the winter or during what they call "monsoon season" which it is for the high desert. Most places that have real monsoons would laugh though.