Grey clouds sunbeams shining on Ribble Estuary high tide seawater, south to Southport Coastline, west end Fiarhaven Lake, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
The winter of 2010-2011 included the UK's coldest December since Met Office Records began in 1910. The UK's mean December 2010 temperature was minus one degree Celsius. In some places the temperature reached minus ten degrees Celsius (14 degrees F). Late November to Boxing Day 2010 experienced two spells of severe winter weather with very low temperatures and significant snowfall. The first cold spell lasted two weeks from Thursday, 25 November to Thursday, 9 December. The UK was under the influence of a prolonged north-easterly airstream drawing bitterly cold air from Northern Europe and Siberia. The beach between Fairhaven and St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. A view across River Ribble Estuary high tide seawater towards the Southport Coastline, and white sunbeams shining through grey clouds, at the western end of the Outer Promenade seawall around Fairhaven Lake. Ice floes were visible on the seawater nearby.
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Location: High tide seawater, west end Fairhaven Lake, Lytham, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
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