Winter Weather Description
Assessment focuses
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To show a build up of weather conditions
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To use a range of punctuation with accuracy (Writing AF 6)
White clouds of winter cold appeared in the sky over night. In the morning they
hung, barely moving in the once bright sky, now turned a dull, moody grey. The sun
had given up on its half hearted effort to shine through the thick layer of dark grey
and muted white. Air was thick; the cloud so low that it brushed with the tallest
branches of the trees; trees which towered up into the spiralling mesh of soft white,
angry greys, and calm blues, blended together by the winds which gathered, meeting
in a swirl of chaos and confusion. Slowly -as if hoping not to be noticed- the snow
fell, tumbling out of the sky irregularly onto the waiting ground. Racing down to
anywhere they can go, the freezing temperatures burn through the air, screaming in
silence as the cold earth comes rushing up to meet them.
And then nothing.
Lying on the cold ground, dead, broken, the tiny snowflakes melt into water; it runs
away, dashing down drains and dripping into dreary gutters. Gutters which are filled
by the ever increasing flood of water toppling out of the sky. Gutters that are coated
with the ever insignificant splashes of white and blue, reflecting an uncaring, bare
world.
The clouds, so far unnoticed and unrecognised, begin to draw attention to
themselves. Hoarse, demanding rumblings shake the world, as if plucked from the
nightmares of a small child. Plunging the world into darkness, monstrous, terrifying
growls claw at the sky air; the air whipping the stars, churning the stars and clouds
Anna Humphreys