- Date
- circa 1968-01
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s January weather report. The average daytime temperature was 25.2 degrees, the average nighttime temperature was 12.8 degrees, the low was -8 degrees on January 10, and 12 inches of snow fell.
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
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Reports January temperatures, 12 inches of snow, 0.25 inches of rain, and total precipitation of 1.07 inches; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island January weather report, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-january-weather-report-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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