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Alone with the wind on the frozen plain
These wind sounds sweep across a frozen wilderness at midday, and they play free in your browser. Snowfields stretch away under a grey sky, with mountains far off on the horizon. You stand wrapped in a thick coat, with nothing between you and the open land.
A cold, deep wind rushes over the snow in long gusts. Fine snow hisses across the frozen crust and sweeps past your boots. Behind you, a stand of frosted pines whistles high and thin. Then a winter blast rises into a howl, swells, and slowly fades, and a frozen pine creaks in its wake.
Far over the valley, a lone bird gives a few hoarse calls. Out here you feel very small, and strangely free. Once you stop bracing against the cold, the wind becomes one vast, steady breath, and you breathe along with it.
If you came for howling wind sounds, press Howling storm, and every gust and blast moves closer. For a steady wind without sudden bursts, choose No sudden gusts.
What you hear on the open snowfields
- Cold wilderness wind: A cold, strong wind sweeps across the open snowfield, a deep, hollow rush with long gusts. Every other sound sits on top of it. Plays all the time.
- Wind whistling through pines: Icy wind whistles through a stand of frosted pines, thin and high over a soft rush of needles. Plays all the time.
- Blowing snow: Fine, dry snow skims across the frozen crust in waves, a soft hiss low to the ground. Plays all the time.
- Freezing gust: A single strong gust rushes in from far away, roars past close by, and dies down over the snow. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Winter blast: One sudden blast sweeps over the frozen plain, rising into a howl that swells and then slowly fades. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Gust in the pines: A cold gust surges through the frozen pines with a loud whoosh of wind and needles, then settles. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Frozen tree creaking: A frozen pine creaks under the push of the wind, slow and stiff in the cold. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Lone bird over the snow: A lone bird gives a few harsh, hoarse calls far away over the frozen valley. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
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