" No music on this, just relaxing rain sounds for sleeping. Sleep noise, nature sounds, white noises and continuous noise at certain frequencies can really help you to sleep and relax. Check our ...

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Being woken up during the middle of the night isn’t usually something I’d be grateful for – but when I woke to the sound of falling rain beating on my window last night, I was more than happy.

In the Midlands and northeast of England, plothering is used to describe heavy rain with little or no accompanying wind. The wonderfully onomatopoeic word describes the sound of fat droplets ...