In Pictures: Hard Ice in Southport – Stay off and Stay Safe!

With plummeting sub-zero temperatures, ice and snow have adversely affected many UK regions.

Southport’s Marine Lake and also Ainsdale Lake have now frozen over.

STAY OFF AND STAY SAFE!

It should not be necessary to warn people, and especially children, of the very serious dangers that breaking ice can create.

A few moments of fun may soon turn to tragedy if the ice is thin and cracks. So stay off it and stay safe.

Above: Possibly a swan or goose that froze to death last night on the Marine Lake.

Above: The distant fells, farther up north past Preston.

Above: Blackpool Tower, photographed with super-zoom over the Ribble Estuary, from Southport’s Marine Drive.

Hard Ice under the Pier

Ainsdale Lake

A similar scene and looking more like a new Ice Age in Ainsdale.

Clearly, a bit of bird food would not go amiss, during these harsh conditions.

The icy conditions are set to remain for a while, with the Met Office giving a minimum temperature of – 8 °C. again tonight.