The brutal combination of Storm Emma and the Beast from the East has left Whitley Bay’s famous sandy beach without any sand.
Rough seas and high winds have swept huge swathes of sand away from the shore on the North Tyneside coastline revealing the hard, rocky terrain beneath.
Before and after pictures show the dramatic contrast between how it usually looks, covered in golden sand, to how it is now.
The brutal combination of Storm Emma and the Beast from the East has left Whitley Bay’s famous sandy beach without any sand. Pictured left is the shoreline as it usually is and right today
Before and after pictures show the dramatic contrast between how it usually looks, covered in golden sand, to how it is now
Before and after: There is a dramatic contrast between how Whitley Bay beach looks normally and how it does this week
Rough seas and high winds have swept huge swathes of sand away from the shore at Whitley Bay, North Tyneside revealing the hard, rocky terrain beneath. A man is pictured there today searching between the rocks with a metal detector
Last week brought high-risk weather warnings to large parts of the UK with winds of up to 70mph and feels like temperatures of -15C.
After snow storms eventually subsided and the thick blanket of white started to melt, they were replaced with flood warnings in some parts of the UK and ice ones in others.
A dog walker at Whitley Beach today compared the transformed coastline to the moon.
He said: ‘It’s like being on the moon. I walk my dog here every day and I have never known anything like it. ‘The beach has been totally transformed. I don’t even recognise it.’
A dog walker at Whitley Beach today (pictured)compared the transformed coastline to the moon, saying he didn’t recognise it
Last week brought high-risk weather warnings to large parts of the UK with winds of up to 70mph and feels like temperatures of -15C. High tides and strong winds during the storms have seen the sand washed away from Whitley Bay beach
The golden sandy shore at Whitley Bay has been transformed to a barren, rocky and ‘moon like’ expanse after storms hi