- Dates
- circa 1968-04 – circa 1968-05
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May–June 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Bill Wagner’s April and May weather reports. April brought 4.29 inches of rain, fog on nine listed dates, and an average daytime temperature of 52.2 degrees. May averaged 57.8 degrees by day, 39.0 by night, and received 3.98 inches of rain.
Evidence and limits
These figures are preserved as the newspaper’s local report. The issue does not identify an instrument, observation site, or official weather series.
Sources
- Reports April and May temperatures, rainfall, snow cover, and fog; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island April and May weather reports, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-april-may-weather-report-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May-June 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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