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scientists have to help since amazed at the response from The Public , the digitization of the British alt-precipitation records.

the hand-written figures on documents from the year 200 years to a spreadsheet format, so that computers analyze past weather patterns to be transferred.

The Volunteers blitzed their way through The Rain -gauge data from the 1950s, 40s and 30s in just four days.

project Manager Prof Ed Hawkins had proposed that The Work would be to use a good way for people to isolation, time.

"It is unbelievable. I thought we could come so far, after three or four weeks, not three or four days," he told Bbc News .

"We have almost sign up to 12,000 helpers. You are now working in the 1920s, and I'm going to the 1910s, and ready for you. "

was launched.

The Volunteers powered through the 1950s, 40s and 30s. The above chart records of precipitation data available, the now over these decades. Two Million Data Points. Gray lines indicate the months for which there is no data, perhaps because of a weather station had yet to start measurement of rainfall or, in fact, had The Collection effort. The Stronger blues on The Right side are just a mirror image of the Station " sites in the wetter parts of Scotland and Wales!

If you want to participate in the precipitation-Rescue-project

your goal is, again, all of the entries on the so-called "10 years of the rainbow".

These are the 65,000 pieces of paper in the UK Met Office archives contain the monthly and decadal rainfall adds up to thousands of weather stations around the country.

Buried in this mass of data, information, inform, flood and drought planning, but Only If its scribbled figures made computer-friendly.

The Met Office has scanned in the back of each sheet, from the 1950s to the 1820s (from the 60s onwards, already digitised).

Volunteers will visit presents the rainfall Rescue-project site, with these documents, one after the other, and asked to transfer their pay in A Number of fields.

Prof Hawkins has A Number of similar systems in The Past and always wondered why optical character recognition (OCR) software is used. But such programs, he says, can still reach, the accuracy of the people.

The digits "1" and "7" can be very styles look similar on handwriting; also a "3" and "8".

"This is a tabular, numeric data is a particular challenge, I think, and no one I've spoken to, we, and you have some pretty big companies, the likes of IBM and Google - has really explained this, cracked," the University of Reading, professor of climate science.

"We get to do four volunteers, each number, and the fact that we can get over 99% accuracy. I'm sure the OCR will improve, but now it can't afford to match what our volunteers. "

How different can The Weather be, from one August to The Next ? The recovered data from the 1950s shows a year, had a very Dry Summer was followed a year later by the very wet conditions.

The Volunteers have been sharing anecdotes on The Project website forum.

rain gauge-records for The Royal residences - Buckingham Palace , Balmoral and Sandringham - were transferred.

the people have taken delight you added to the notes, the sheets of the original burners.

There are stories of data interrupted by the trampling of animals and of children, to teach them the stones to throw. On a sheet of 1948, The Abbot says that his monastery was interrupted in the Time Series , because the measuring device had a bullet hole in it and needed repair.

"have involved The Volunteers really started picking interesting things; they have started the discussion, months that are either very wet or very dry," said Prof Hawkins.

"she went through the 1938 and found the April this year was exceptionally dry. Many places had zero rain for the whole month. "

the importance of The restoration of the old weather records can not be exaggerated.

It is only by the presence in the context of The Past , to which we can properly plan for The Future .

It is the whole range of possibilities in relation to flood and drought frequency and magnitude, for example, only the dense historic data that we collect.

If you want to participate in the precipitation-Rescue-project

an example for a 10-year precipitation sheet: The Rain gauge data for Sandringham House during the second world war

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Source of news: bbc.com