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Original - A satellite image showing Great Britain covered in snow during the European winter storms of 2009–10.
Reason
A glorious image that's received a nice bit of press attention over here- see this BBC article, for instance. I've seen it on TV a few times. There's possible even enough for an article on this image itself. The image illustrates our current cold snap extremely well. Currently only used in one article as it is so young (as well as my userpage :)), but I have no doubt that such a striking and high quality shot has a place in many. I'd just like to anticipate comparisons to the equally beautiful File:Scandinavia.TMO2003050.jpg, and note that this image illustrates something completely different- the idea of Britain being covered in snow like this is strange- I don't think it's occurred in my lifetime, and this is the longest cold snap for several decades. I appreciate that there is a little cloud cover here, and so this is not quite at the same level as the other in terms of being a "perfect shot", but this is not meant to be a shot of a "typical winter Britain", as the other is a shot of a "typical winter Scandanavia". And, of course, a little cloud cover is to be expected (and even favoured) in this case, due to the fact this is trying to illustrate the weather, rather than the geography.
Articles in which this image appears
European winter storms of 2009–10, Winter of 2009–2010 in the United Kingdom, Terra (satellite)
Creator
NASA
It's decided in advance? I thought it was a random image from the general pot of FP's... Gazhiley (talk) 10:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This Monday 11th? It won't even be closed by then so won't be POTD. No, it's not just a random image, in general they basically follow the order of FP promotion. See Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2010 for this month's archive. --jjron (talk) 12:01, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well I never... You learn something new every day around here! Thanks! Though now i won't have the feeling of anticipation every time i log into wiki to see if a FP I've voted on is front page... Ah well... Gazhiley (talk) 13:21, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just to mention this also appears on the front page of our local newspaper today in South Wales (albeit a cropped version showing just Wales) so i can attest to it being all over the media if our little old paper has it too! Gazhiley (talk) 15:13, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Great_Britain_Snowy.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]