dark sand beach with sea ice towards blue sky white cirrus clouds red sunset, St Annes, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK


The winter of 2010-2011 included the coldest December since Met Office Records began in 1910. There mean December 2010 temperature was minus 1 degree Celsius. In some places the temperature was down to minus 10 degrees Celsius. 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, several centimetres thick. Blue sky, cirrus clouds red sunset over dark sand beach with sea ice, north of St Annes.


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Location: Red sunset over dark sand beach with sea ice, St Annes, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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