Blue sky view frost and sea ice on sand expanse looking south to the pier and old steamer jetty, St Annes, Lancashire, UK
The winter of 2010-2011 included the coldest December since Met Office Records began in 1910. The mean December 2010 temperature was minus 1 degree Celsius. In some places the temperature was down to minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 F). Late November to Boxing day 2010 included two spells of severe winter weather in the UK with very low temperatures and significant snowfall. The beach in and around St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. Blue sky sunny day of frost and sea ice on the beach north of St Annes, looking south towards the pier and old steamer jetty. Part of a 'Merry Christmas' inscription is seen in the sand right foreground. St Annes Pier opened in 1885. Firse in the 1970s and 1980s destroyed the seaward end, which was demolished, so isolating the steamer jetty. Pleasure steamers, navigating the now silted-up North Channel of the River Ribble Estuary, picked up passengers at the steamer jetty. The North Channel is visible on maps from the 1890s.
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Location: Blue sky view froist and sea ice on sand expanse, south to the pier and steamer jetty, St Annes, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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