As was alluded to in an earlier posting here, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center has recently endeavored on an effort to discover and rescue a plethora of international holdings in hard copy in its basement and make them usable by the international science community. The resulting images of the records from the first chunk of these efforts have just been made available online. Sadly, it is not realistic at the present time to key these data so they remain stuck in a half-way house, available, tantalizingly so, but not yet truly usable.
So, if you want to undertake some climate sleuthing now is your moment to shine ...! The data have all been placed at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/globaldatabank/daily/stage0/FDL/ . These consist of images at both daily and monthly resolution - don't be fooled by the daily in the ftp site address. If you find a monthly resolution data source you could digitize years worth of records in an evening.
Whether you wish to start with Angola ...
