More rain, high winds and high tides are set to hit the south and west of the UK, causing further flooding.
The Met Office is warning of heavy rain in southern England - including the already flooded Somerset Levels - south Wales and parts of Northern Ireland.
The Environment Agency, which has issued numerous flood warnings, said many coastal areas would be affected by high tides in the coming days.
This January is already the wettest on record for many southern areas.
A Met Office amber rain warning - meaning "be prepared" - has been issued for the Somerset Levels and is valid until 03:00 GMT on Saturday.
The warning said the public should be prepared for "significant disruption from flooding across the Somerset Levels", where large areas are already flooded.
Most of southern England and south Wales, as well as County Antrim, County Armagh and County Down in Northern Ireland, are subject to a lower-level yellow warning throughout Friday until 03:00 on Saturday.
"A further area of heavy rain will spread eastwards across the UK on Friday, clearing the southeast of England during the early hours of Saturday," the warning said.
"20-30 mm (1in) of rain will fall quite widely, with around 40 mm on some high ground in the southwest of England and south Wales. The heavy rain will be accompanied by strong to gale force winds."
Meanwhile, a small number of flood warnings have been issued in Scotland.
'Pay close attention'The Environment Agency said places "at risk" from high tides and winds over the weekend included coastal and tidal areas of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol and south Gloucestershire.
Many other coastal areas of England could also be affected by the wind, rain and high tides from Friday through to Sunday, it added.
Speaking after a meeting of Cobra, the government's emergency committee, on Thursday evening, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson urged people to "pay close attention" to the latest flood and weather warnings.
Cobra will meet again later.
In Wales, Aberystwyth University's seafront halls of residence are to be evacuated until Monday. Buildings there have been evacuated several times in recent weeks.
Dredging, flood barriers, natural flood management and sustainable drainage are recognised methods of preventing or alleviating flooding. BBC News looks at how these methods work and the scientific principles behind them.
Flood defences on part of the Welsh coast, washed away by recent storms, have been reinforced with bags of slate set down by a helicopter.
Army 'not needed'In the Somerset Levels, 25 sq miles (65 sq km) has been flooded and the Environment Agency said it was running pumps 24 hours a day to drain the water.
It said 62 pumps were removing about 1.5 million tonnes of water - equivalent to 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools - each day.
Military planners met council officials there on Thursday, but the county council decided Army help was not needed.
On the BBC's Question Time on Thursday, shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry accused the government of making "policy by photo opportunity" after two soldiers were pictured assessing the scene in Somerset.
"The prime minister said he was going to call in the Army and the Army arrive and they go home again," she said.
Somerset farmer Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival, said flooding had become a yearly problem and dredging work must now be done.
He said the alternative was to "abandon the farmland" to "wading birds".
The Environment Agency said dredging of rivers in Somerset would not begin until flood water had drained and river banks were safe.
Up to and including 28 January, the South East and central southern England had a record 175.2mm (6.9in) of rainfall in January - beating the previous record of 158.2mm for the same parts of England set in 1988.
Across south-west England and south Wales, the 222.6 mm (8.8in) of rainfall up to midnight on Tuesday meant January was already the fifth-wettest.
For the UK as a whole, 164.6 mm (6.5in) of rain has fallen so far this month - 35% above the long-term average.
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