Blue sky white clouds sunny day view frozen water Crook Gate Reservoir, west across snowy South Pennines from track near A672, Denshaw, Lancashire, UK
The winter of 2010-2011 included the UK's coldest December since Met Office Records began in 1910. The mean December 2010 temperature 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 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. Oldham Corporation Waterworks built a number of reservoirs on the western edge of the South Pennine Moors between 1876 and 1883. Here we see the frozen waters of the Crook Gate Reservoir, looking west across the snowy landscape of the South pennine hills, from the moorland track from the A672 Ripponden Road above Henshaw, Lancashire, UK
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Location: Crook Gate Reservoir in the snowy South Pennine landscape, looking west from the moorland track near
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