Tree trunk root lying salt marsh with sea ice blocks towards white sun shining calm waters River Ribble Estuary, Granny's Bay, Fairhaven, Lytham, 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. 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 between Fairhaven and St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. View of sea ice at Granny's bay, Fairhaven, with the silhouette of a tree trunk root, looking south across the calm waters of the River Ribble Estuary towards Southport.
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Location: Granny's Bay, Fairhaven, across River Ribble Estuary to Southport, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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