Are you maintaining your car during this period of the year whereby it is literally raining day after day with short intervals of sunny windows. I hope you are as this type of weather conditions is not favourable for the the cars' paint work.
I really hate this time of the year in SG as the car gets dirty real fast and i have to compensate it by performing double dosage of maintenance work to keep it clean and safe as it is park in the open at times. The water beads collected on the roof panel of the car is not good as they will become etching problem when the sun gets them, no doubt they certainly get alot of attention from curious passersby.
Frequent washing/ cleaning has always gave me good result with most LSPs durability and water beading/ sheeting performance. It does help in the process to maintain the car in pristine state but if i am given the opportunity to park my car under shelter, i will as it does save time and effort for me.
Whenever the car gets caught in the rain, i will wash it when the rain stop (before the sun comes out) or within the next 24 hrs. These rain water stains seem to be very prone to white car even though the car is clean very often, 2 days in the rain and these stains will appear everywhere around the car. These will become stubborn stains when they are left on the car for many days and use of wax to remove them becomes inevitable. (IMHO, all the cars have this issue, it's just the colour that make them "invisible".)
I had encountered this strange effect on the applied surface protection with my car whereby the LSP seemed to be weakening so much faster (easily lasted more than 90 days without signs of water beads weakening, current state is barely 35 days old) than the usual protection period. 
The car was parked at the same place which was under the shelter of a huge tree's canopy for the last couple of days as it was raining nonstop.
This mixture of "tree water" + rainwater was allow to dwell on the paint surface for about 3 days and finally the sun was coming up... better wash the car before all the water beads start to cook off on the surface. The picture taken above is before the car wash session and the water collected on the paint surface is noted to be slightly yellowish.
Initially, i thought the car surface must be contaminated and dirty after soaking in the rain for 3 days, hence the water beads are behaving in that manner. When the surface beading remain the same even after the car wash session, i'm sure the LSP is weakening (picture above).
What has cause the applied LSP to weaken so much faster/ earlier? Acid rain becoming even more potent after flowing through tree leaves and branches? It is really ironic and i'm totally clueless on this but i do take the effort to avoid parking under the tree be it rain or shine. Thanks for viewing.
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