Blue sky view, looking seawards, white expanse of partially melted sea ice on the sand beach north of St Annes, Lancashire, UK

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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 (!4 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 in and around St Annes in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast blcoks of sea ice, several centimetres thick. A blue sky view of frozen sea ice blocks on a sand beach expanse north of St Annes, Lancashire, UK.

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Size: 4188px × 2477px
Location: Land-fast sea ice on sand beach expanse, north of St Annes, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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