- Date
- circa 1968-07
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s July weather report. Rain fell on 11 days, fog occurred on seven days, and total rainfall was 2.87 inches. The high was 84 degrees on July 16, the low was 46 on July 11, and heavy rain and hail occurred on July 21.
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 July rain, fog, hail, temperatures, and averages; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-08_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 · 1968-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island July weather report, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-july-weather-report-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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