Sound Gallery - Rain

Rainstorm over the desert at Big Bend National Park in Texas

NPS Photo by Mark Schuler

• Rain

  
  

  Sound recording of rain, Devils Postpile National Monument, California.

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  Audio Transcript

  The gentle drumming of light rain.

Spectrogram of rain. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram shows the constant gentle, mid-frequency patter of droplets

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