Blue sky view, looking east, blocks and sheets of sea ice on wide expanse of sand beach, east of 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 blocks, several centimetres thick. A blue sky view, looking east towards an area of saltmarsh, of sea ice, with isolated blocks, on the sand beach east of St Annes. The sea ice seen here is the remains of a more extensive sheet of sea ice earlier in the week.
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Location: Blue sky view, looking east, of land-fast sea ice on the sand beach east of St Annes, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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