It's no secret that rain sounds offer troubled sleepers comfort ... block out other noises that pose a threat to sleep. In other words, it's never too late to trade the ping of push notifications ...

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 ...

Whether or not you’re a pluviophile – the word used to describe people who love rain – there’s no denying that listening to the sound of raindrops pitter-pattering is seriously soothing.

Of the dozen or so rain variations ... hook of a brain some other sound into which it can sink its spikes. Do you hear it? That hum is here now, infiltrating my words with its sneakily savage ...

4. Plothering (v) In the Midlands and northeast, heavy rain is still described as “plothering”, a surpassingly onomatopoeic word that describes the sound of fat drops hitting the ground ...

If the Inuit apocryphally have 50 words for snow, why don't British people have 50 words for rain... or at least more ... then goes on to describe singing sounds from telegraph wires and the ...