3083 x 2021 px | 26,1 x 17,1 cm | 10,3 x 6,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
8. Dezember 2010
Ort:
Sea ice sand beach, with tractor tracks, looking north to St Annes Pier, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, UK
Weitere Informationen:
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 in and around St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. A blue sky view of tractor tracks crossing a wide expanse of sand beach with land-fast sea ice, looking north to St Annes Pier and old steamer jetty. St Annes Pier opened in 1885. Fires in the 1970s and 1980s severely damaged the pier's seaward end, which was demolished, so isolating the steamer jetty. Pleasure steamers, navigating the now silted-up North Channel of the River Ribble Estuary. picked up passengers from the steamer jetty. Maps from the 1890s show the North Channel.
