3125 x 2057 px | 26,5 x 17,4 cm | 10,4 x 6,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
7. Dezember 2010
Ort:
Grey sky view sea ice blocks on beach and saltmarsh, east end Granny's Bay, Fairhaven, Lytham, 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 (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 between Fairhaven and St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. Grey clouds, white sunshine of large sea ice blocks lying on the sand beach, looking south to icy saltmarsh and calm seawater, at the east end of Granny's Bay, Fairhaven. Granny's Bay is so-called, so it is said, after a Lady Clifton, who used to take her grandchildren there, in the days when the bay was an expanse of sand, before the invasion of Spartina grass from the direction of Preston.
