Thick sea ice blocks on low tide sand expanse, towards white sun shining and sinking blue sky, 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 blocks of sea ice, several centimetres thick. Uneven ice blocks on wet sand expanse towards calm seawater and a white sun shining brightly and sinking in blue sky, on the beach east of St Annes.
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Location: Sea ice on sand beach, east of St Annes, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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