Discovery of Victorian-Era Data Suggests Extreme Weather Events Not New

Millions of archived rainfall records dating back nearly 200 years which were digitised by volunteers during the pandemic have broken UK weather records and provided researchers with decades more data on weather trends University of Reading/PA

Data taken from handwritten 130-year old rainfall observations from Met Office archives has revealed that extreme weather events are nothing new.

United Kingdom’s national weather service, The Met Office published the data on Friday gained from millions of archived rainfall records. But long-standing environmentalism skeptics told The Epoch Times that this further undermines the case that climate change is driving extreme weather events.

130 Years

The Rainfall Rescue project was launched by the University of Reading in March 2020 which used the help of 16,000 volunteers to help digitally transcribe 130 years’ worth of handwritten rainfall observations from the Met Office archives. This increased the amount of pre-1960 observation data available for climate scientists and researchers by six-fold.