3121 x 2077 px | 26,4 x 17,6 cm | 10,4 x 6,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
6. Dezember 2010
Ort:
Grey sky view sea ice on sand beach expanse to old Steamer Jetty, Outer Promenade, St Annes, 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 in and around St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, in December 2010 displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice blocks, several centimetres thick. Grey clouds view of a large expanse of sea ice on the sand beach in front of the Outer Promenade walkway, looking north to the old Steamer Jetty at St Annes. Pleasure steamers, navigating the silted-up North Channel of the River Ribble Estuary picked up passengers at the steamer jetty, which became isolated from the rest of St Annes Pier after fires in the 1970s and 1980s destroyed the seaward end of the pier. Maps from the 1890s show the North Channel of the Ribble Estuary.
