- Date
- circa 1966-07
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 1966 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s July weather report. It recorded 1.59 inches of rain after July 25, a high of 90 degrees on July 2, and a high-to-extreme forest-fire hazard through most of the month.
Evidence and limits
These figures are preserved as the newspaper’s local weather report. The issue does not identify an instrument, observation site, or official fire-management record.
Sources
- Reports July rain, temperatures, and a high-to-extreme forest-fire hazard through most of the month; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1966-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published report; it does not expand the source-specific weather or fire-hazard observations.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1966-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island July weather and fire-hazard report, 1966”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-july-weather-report-1966/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1966, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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