Volunteers Transcribe 130 Years of Handwritten Rainfall Records
People shelter under their umbrellas during rain in London on Jan. 4, 2022. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) At a Glance The records included more than 66,000 single pages of paper.More than 5.8 million numbers were handwritten in the data.The project extended Britain's official rainfall records back to 1836. Scientists in Britain sent out a call for volunteers in March 2020 to help transcribe 130 years of handwritten rainfall records from the country's official weather archives. They...