View, looking south to white sun rays shining through grey clouds, sea ice expanse on wide flat sand beach, east of St Annes, 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. expanse of sea ice on sand, looking south across the River Ribble Estuary, towards a white sun shining through grey clouds, beach east of St Annes.
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Location: Sea ice on sand, looking south to white sun shining grey clouds, beach east of St Annes, Lancashire
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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