- Dates
- 1971-03-01 – 1971-04-30
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Bernard W. "Bill" Wagner
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weatherenvironment
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s weather reports in the April 1971 Beaver Beacon record March and April temperatures, snowfall, and precipitation on Beaver Island.
Evidence and limits
The newspaper preserves the reported monthly totals but does not identify the observation station or instruments.
Sources
- Reports March snowfall of 11 inches, 95 inches since November, and 16 inches on the ground at month end; April snowfall of 2.5 inches, 97.5 inches since November, 0.90 inches of precipitation, and bare ground since April 15.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1971-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1971-04_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather reports for March and April 1971”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-march-april-weather-report-1971/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1971, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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