Weather? There's a lot of it about

Under the Weather: Us and the Elements, by Tom Fort:

"Our weather is much more interesting than what they have in other countries," Cedric Roberts tells Fort. For more than 60 years, Roberts has recorded the weather in Halesowen. His maisonette bristles with electronic equipment, but now he is old and in ill health. There is no one to whom he can hand on the project. Then, two months after he was interviewed by Fort, a thunderbolt wiped out his software.

Review: Guardian