- Dates
- 1973-01-01 – 1973-01-31
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weathercommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 1973 Beaver Beacon published Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s January weather report. The month included a high of 48 degrees, a low of 4 degrees, 3.5 inches of snowfall, and 1.52 inches of precipitation, with unusually mild temperatures during part of the month.
Evidence and limits
This is a contemporaneous newspaper summary of local measurements, not the underlying weather log or an independently calibrated observation series.
Sources
- Reports January high and low temperatures, averages, 3.5 inches of snowfall, and 1.52 inches of precipitation, including the warm period from January 13 through 27; it does not provide the underlying instrument log.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1973-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather table.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1973-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather report for January 1973”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-january-weather-report-1973/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1973, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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