A project launched in the first days of the March 2020 lockdown asked people to while away the hours by helping to digitise a series of pre-1960 weather records form the UK Met Office archive. In just 16 days, the British public raced through 66,000 scanned paper sheets, with 5.4 million individual rainfall observations – each recorded four times for quality control purposes. And now meteorologists say it will help us understand climate change. Find out more.
