Grey clouds white sun view, across Ribble Estuary to Southport, ice floes on calm high tide seawater, west end Fairhaven Lake, Fylde Coast, Lancashire
The winter of 2010-2011 included the UK's coldest December since Met Office Records began in 1910. The mean December 2010 temperature in the UK was minus one degree Celsius. In some places the temperature reached minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees F). Late November to Boxing Day 2010 experienced two spells of severe winter weather in the UK 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. Here we see an expanse of ice floes on calm high tide seawater at the western end of Fairhaven Lake, looking south across the River Ribble Estuary to hazy Southport.
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Location: Ice floes on calm high tide seawater, west end Fairhaven Lake, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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