then beautiful sunlight breaking through

[GoodTaste]

Is the expression "then beautiful sunlight breaking through" natural in English?

The speaker uses "beautiful" twice. I would use "then gorgeous golden sunlight breaking in." I am not sure whether I've written it naturally as well.

Editing of the passage would be much appreciated.

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Iceland Highland in Kerlingafjoll area, it is so raw, remote, beautiful and intimidating at the same time. Snow storm with hurricane-like piercing wind in early September then beautiful sunlight breaking through! We tried to drive on this F344 road with a small AWD SUV but had to abandon it because road is so rocky with unpredictable stream crossings. We hiked there for 6 miles and only encountered with one group riding on big SUV.

Source: Facebook

 

[GoesStation]

That's a group of words, not an expression. The post is written in a casual, telegraphic style. It's natural in that context.

"Then" separates two elements in the narrative by time: first there was a snowstorm, then the sun shone.

The narrative is fine as it is.

 

[GoodTaste]

because road is so rocky

"The road" or simply "road"?

 

[emsr2d2]

"The road" or simply "road"?

Grammatically, the article is required but, as GoesStation said, it's written in a "casual, telegraphic style". I strongly suspect it wasn't written by a native speaker.

 

[GoesStation]

"The road" or simply "road"?

"Telegraphic" means omitting non-essential words. But re-reading the text, I think it was written by a non-native speaker whose first language does not use articles. You've found one of several missing ones.

 

[GoodTaste]

it wasn't written by a native speaker.

it was written by a non-native speaker.

Correct.