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Light winter and southwest winds open Beaver Island harbor ice, 1960

Also March 1960 Beaver Island harbor ice report

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TypeEvent
Date1960-03
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1960-03
Kind
Weather
Where
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Modern era
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Summary

The March 1960 Beaver Beacon reports a light winter and repeated southwest winds opening portions of Beaver Harbor ice and moving it from the passage between Beaver and Garden Islands.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper observation, not a calibrated weather series, ice chart, or navigation log.

Sources

  1. Reports a light winter with little snow or cold and says southwest winds repeatedly opened portions of Beaver Harbor ice and moved it from the passage between Beaver and Garden Islands. It does not provide calibrated weather observations, ice charts, or navigation logs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the weather and harbor-ice report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Light winter and southwest winds open Beaver Island harbor ice, 1960”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-march-1960-harbor-ice-and-weather/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1960, "Conservation News." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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