Portrait white sun shining grey clouds above calm high tiode seawater with ice floes, west end Outer Promenade, Fairhaven, 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 between Fairhaven and St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. White sun shining through grey clouds onto hide tide seawater with ice floes on the sea ice beach near the western end of the Outer Promenade seawall around Fairhaven Lake. The portrait shot looks south across the River Ribble Estuary.


Size: 2832px × 4256px
Location: Portrait white sun shining through grey clouds onto high tide with ice floes, west of Fairhaven, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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