- Date
- circa 1968-08
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Bill Wagner’s August weather report. Rainfall totaled 8.10 inches, including 5.87 inches during the week of August 18 and 2.5 inches during two hours on August 22. The average daytime temperature was 73.5 degrees and the average nighttime temperature was 54 degrees.
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 August temperatures, storms, fog, hail, and rainfall; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island August weather report, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-august-weather-report-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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