Grey sky view, looking east, land-fast sea ice blocks on sand beach with ice floes seawater, 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 grey sky view, looking east, of an expanse of sea ice blocks on the sand beach east of the Outer Promenade Walkway at St Annes. Seawater, with ice floes, is receding from the beach. An area of saltmarsh is visible centre background.
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Location: Land-fast sea ice on the beach east of St Annes, looking east, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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