Winds of the World

Pampero you rush across the pampa's of Argentina blowing fast and strong bending all before you. Mighty and powerful you make your presence known as you travel o'er the pampas in triumphant passage. Ah Simoom you shift around the sand dunes sucking up all moisture as you journey the Sahara, creating vast clouds of blinding sand. Stinging sands that cut like knives tearing at clothes. Tramontane you blow so cold as you traverse the Alps bringing with you freezing ice and snow. And flick over to the Pyrenees where you dance in delight as you blow hard and strong whipping up snow. Wreckhouse you blow down the slopes of the Range mountains of Newfoundland. Cleansing and refreshing as you bring life giving rains to their slopes. Vibrant greens left by your path as you go on to who knows quite where Fremantle Doctor you are an afternoon sea breeze coming in from the Indian Ocean you bring welcome coolness across Perth with a salty tang, but only in the summer months do you work your charms. Plough winds breezing along in straight furrows preceding thunderstorms forming clusters of rain. No deviation in your path straight as a arrow you bring lightning flashes that lit the skies. Calima the dread of housewives as you bring dust laden clouds to the shores of the Canary Islands, coming south to southeasterly carried by the Saharan air layer. The sooner gone the better. Abrosolhos with your frequent squalls that traverse in the months of May through to August known in Portuguese as open eyes you flow between Cabo de San Tome and Cabo Frio causing chaos. written 2014 contest Wind sponsor Skat