Steady Rain

Sky and earth act as if they are opposite sides of a magnet when the heavens open up uncontrollably giving themselves to the ground, and the soil is wide soft waiting to receive millions of tiny drops over every porous inch exposed. You can only imagine the level of passion shared between these two ancient lovers. Rainbands are cloud and precipitation areas which are significantly elongated. Rainbands can be stratiform or convective, and are generated by differences in temperature. When noted on weather radar imagery, this precipitation elongation is referred to as banded structure. Rainbands in advance of warm occluded fronts and warm fronts are associated with weak upward motion, and tend to be wide and stratiform in nature. Rainbands spawned near and ahead of cold fronts can be squall lines which are able to produce tornadoes. Rainbands associated with cold fronts can be warped by mountain barriers perpendicular to the front's orientation due to the formation of a low-level barrier jet. Bands of thunderstorms can form with sea breeze and land breeze boundaries, if enough moisture is present. If sea breeze rainbands become active enough just ahead of a cold front, they can mask the location of the cold front itself. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=119784