An intriguing meteorological paper on crowdsourcing using ‘citizen scientists’ was published last week. Ed Hawkins, Professor of Climate Science at Reading University, and his team of co-authors tell the remarkable story of a crowdsourcing project that occurred during lockdown in 2020. The UK National Meteorological Archive has over 5.28 million handwritten observations recorded by weather enthusiasts over two centuries. A decision was made to digitalize these records to help climate scientists increase the accuracy of weather forecasting. The mountainous task was to manually transcribe over 6…
