Pre-1960s handwritten rain gauge data can inform drought and flood planning, but only if digitised.
The Reading University scientist has run a number of previous"weather rescue" projects, including the digitisation of data collected by, at the turn of the 20th Century. But this project is the biggest yet.Each of 65,000 scanned sheets contains the monthly rainfall totals for a particular decade at a particular station. Something like three to five million data points in all.
For example, many across the country had a torrid start to the year because of heavy rainfall. But meteorologists suspect the October of 1903 was just as bad, if not worse. Unfortunately, because all the rainfall data from the time was noted down on paper, it's not possible to be precise. If that happened today, it would probably cause quite serious problems for the water companies because they rely on wet winters and wet springs to recharge the reservoirs.
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