Weather & Climate Data: analysis

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I'm learning "Weather & Climate Data: analysis" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Where weather and climate data come from".

What the lesson teaches:
- Worked example: Canada. Most countries have a national weather and climate service that publishes similar free data. This course uses Canada's service as the worked example; look for your own country's official service and follow the same steps.
- In Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) provides a public Historical Climate Data website at climate.weather.gc.ca, where you search by station and date, and a separate page for Canadian Climate Normals.
- In Canada, ECCC's current normals cover 1991 to 2020. They are updated at the end of each decade and are based on "Canadian climate composite stations with at least 15 years of data between 1991 to 2020" (ECCC).
- ECCC also publishes the Adjusted and Homogenized Canadian Climate Data (AHCCD), corrected records for climate research on surface air temperature, precipitation, surface pressure and surface wind speed (ECCC).
- NASA's GISTEMP gives estimates of global surface temperature change, shared as plain-text tables and gridded files (NASA GISS).
- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) combined six international datasets in its 2024 analysis (ECMWF, the Japan Meteorological Agency, NASA, NOAA, the UK Met Office with the University of East Anglia, and Berkeley Earth).
- Different datasets use different methods but tell the same big story; that is why scientists compare several.

The exercise I'm working on:
Find your nearest ECCC station. In a notebook, record: station name, the month you picked, the highest and lowest temperature that month and the total precipitation. Compare it with your own thermometer or rain gauge readings if you have any.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Where weather and climate data come from" from the course "Weather & Climate Data: analysis".

Here's what the lesson says:
Every day, thousands of thermometers, rain buckets and satellites around the world write down numbers. If you stack up all the numbers and look at them carefully, you can see patterns that you cannot see on one day. A data scientist is a detective who reads those stacks of numbers.

The activity:
Find your nearest ECCC station. In a notebook, record: station name, the month you picked, the highest and lowest temperature that month and the total precipitation. Compare it with your own thermometer or rain gauge readings if you have any.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.