Snowy River Severn at Caersws

The River Severn , the longest river in Great Britain at 220 miles, starts as a small mountainside stream high up on Plynlimon in the Welsh Cambrian Mountains and ends where it meets the sea at a wide estuary that separates England from South Wales. In the lowlands of mid-Wales, the River Severn meanders lazily through water meadows as it heads towards England. Normally, the Severn water meadows of mid-Wales remain green and muddy during the Winter months, as a result of sporadic flooding. However, during the unusually cold and snowy weather of December 2010, the mid-Wales countryside disappeared under a thick blanket of snow, hoar frost and powder-snow encased the branches of every waterside tree and shrub, and bone-chilling fog settled into the low-lying landscape. Faced with this unusual weather event at a temperature of only --14C, we took a hike at rural Caersws, Powys, to record this video of the Severn riverside bathed in the low golden light of the Winter Solstice sun.

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• Wales
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