On the morning when we had a partial (around 70%) eclipse of the sun, i went outside to find it was raining. . . With very thick clouds in the sky. Olympus ls10 built-in mics.
A heavy summer shower recorded from my window with a zoom h2. There are some background noise (child's voice, but i think no car, can't swear to it though) and two claps of far away thunder. The rain becomes lighter in the last 1'30. Free for any use. I'd be happy to know if you used it :-).
This is a stereo recording of a rain tube, foleyed by delisa m. White. Oktava 012 microphone xy pair into neve 1272 preamps and apogee mini-me converter.
Thunder in suburban melbourne, light rain. A wide variety of different strikes, good for drama, easy to eq for different emphasis. One massive overhead strike about 6:15 in. Xy-coincident stereo mic recording @44k1.
Recorded on 23rd july 2013 with an olympus ls-10. This was about 04:30 in the morning and has been edited with audacity (two takes have been put together). The location is essex, uk.
A strong rainshower hitting an awning, with the gentle "shhhhhh. . . . " of the rain falling on the new, fresh green, pliable leaves of a sugar maple. Some good thunder as well in this recording. Recording made in april of 2017 at 6:00pm in the midwest. Gear used: sound devices 702 with audio technica bp4025 stereo microphone. Enjoy.
A small piece of the heavy thunderstorm that hit genova (italy) the night between monday the 7th of november 2011 and the morning of the 8th. Unprocessed. Recorded with a edirol r9 from inside.
I believe this was recorded with a sound devices 702 and a neumann rsm 191 stereo shotgun in a concrete stairwell. You can hear the rain hitting the stairs and going down the drain. It's also hitting some junk at the top of the stairs. There are big thunder claps and more distant rumbles.
This sound was created by using the memo feature of my digital camera. It was recorded while standing under an overpass during a rain storm. If you listen carefully, you will hear traffic overhead and the rain pelting the ground nearby.
A vigorous rain squall with hail after 2 minutes. Recorded in a suburb of cardiff with an r-09 hr, rode nt4 in a rode blimp. General urban background, some cars passing in the distance, footsteps and doors.
Moderate rainfall with civil defense (air raid) sirens wailing and rotating and low rumbles of thunder. Recorded about an hour before a major tornado struck the area.