Blue sky white sunshine view large expanse of sea ice on sand towards the old Steamer Jetty, beach north of St Annes, Lancashire
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 white sunshine view across a wide, flat expanse of sea ice towards the old Steamer Jetty from the beach north of St Annes. Pleasure steamers, navigating the now silted-up North Channel of the River Ribble Estuary, picked up passengers from the steamer jetty, which was joined to the rest of St Annes Pier until fires in the 1970s and 1980s destroyed the seaward end of the pier, so leading to the steamer jetty's isolation. Maps from the 1890s show the North Channel of the Ribble Estuary.
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Location: Sunny day view sea ice on sand expanse towards old steamer jetty, beach north of St Annes, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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