You’re asking how to avoid something that’s unavoidable. Two things which are not avoidable are death and taxes. Everything else is pretty much susceptible to change or adjustment. Though scientists are now working hard to postpone the death situation through enhancing longevity of humans, so there’s just one thing left (taxes).
Summer rain is imagery a type of figurative language. And what figurative language can do to a story is set the tone, and when it is imagery it can create the setting.